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GODEFROY ENGELMANN, FRIEDRICH HEINRICH KITTLITZ, LOUIS-PIERRE-ALPHONSE BICHEBOIS. View Taken in the Interior of the Lower Caroline Islands,19th century. Creators: Friedrich Heinrich Kittlitz, Godefroy Engelmann, Louis-Pierre-Alphonse Bichebois.

GODEFROY ENGELMANN, FRIEDRICH HEINRICH KITTLITZ and LOUIS-PIERRE-ALPHONSE BICHEBOIS. View Taken in the Interior of the Lower Caroline Islands,19th century. One of 65 lithographs that were included in the volume of maps published after the round-the-world voyage of the corvette Seniavin commissioned by Tsar Nicholas I and carried out in 1826-29 under the command of Captain Fedor Litke (the Russian version of the name of Count Friedrich Lu¨tke, a Baltic German). The expedition began in Kronstadt (the main imperial Russian naval base near Saint Petersburg where Russian circumnavigations typically began and ended); it then traveled around Cape Horn to the Pacific Ocean. This voyage was one of many Russian scientific naval surveys in the first part of the 19th century.
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Title:
View Taken in the Interior of the Lower Caroline Islands,19th century. Creators: Friedrich Heinrich Kittlitz, Godefroy Engelmann, Louis-Pierre-Alphonse Bichebois.
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View Taken in the Interior of the Lower Caroline Islands,19th century. One of 65 lithographs that were included in the volume of maps published after the round-the-world voyage of the corvette Seniavin commissioned by Tsar Nicholas I and carried out in 1826-29 under the command of Captain Fedor Litke (the Russian version of the name of Count Friedrich Lu¨tke, a Baltic German). The expedition began in Kronstadt (the main imperial Russian naval base near Saint Petersburg where Russian circumnavigations typically began and ended); it then traveled around Cape Horn to the Pacific Ocean. This voyage was one of many Russian scientific naval surveys in the first part of the 19th century.
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4960 x 3787 px | 53.7 MB
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42.0 x 32.1 cm | 16.5 x 12.6 in (300 dpi)