PAGÉS, PIERRE MARIE FRANCOIS, vicomte de.
Född i Toulouse, död i Saint-Domnique på Haiti.
Fransk sjöofficer. Som löjtnant ledde han 1767-71 en expedition som sökte finna Nordostpassagen. Han tvingades ge upp hoppet om detta, men förestod istället en rad vetenskapliga observationer och mätningar i Indiska Oceanen och Stilla Havet. 1772 deltog han i Kerguelen-Trèmarecs exedition till sydpolsområdet och 1776 ledde han en nordpolsexpedition. Han nådde emellertid inte längre än till Svalbard. Hans bok om dessa tre resor, 'Voyages autour du monde et vers les deux póles' utkom 1782 och blev översatt till flera språk, däribland svenska. Efter att ha avancerat till kapten drog han sig 1782 tillbaka i Saint-Dominique där han drev en plantage. Han blev mördad under ett negeruppror i förbindelse med franska revolutionen.
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Voyages autour du monde et vers les deux póles.
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(fl. 1790-1812). Publisher at the sign of the Little Midshipman, later called Navigation Warehouse No. 157 Leadenhall Street. Joined by Williams 1768 [Heather & Williams] - up to 1800; succeeded by Norie 1812.
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Clements' Thames 1791, China Seas 1799, Pilot American Ocean 1795-1801, Harbours Brit. Channel 1801, New Mediterranean Pilot 1802, Andaman & Nicobar Is. 1803, New North Sea Pilot 1807, Marine Atlas 1808, North Amer. Pilot 1810, Pilot London Spain 1810, Pilot Brazils 1811, World 1812.
Tooley
Gulddistriktet Klondike - ca 1897.
Ekelöf - C. H. Tersmeden ca 1900.
Knight Leontiy Vassilievich Spafaryev (1765 - 30 January 1847) was a Lieutenant General of the Imperial Russian Navy. Spafaryev was Director of the Lighthouse Administration and cartographer of the Russian Admiralty.
Spafariev was an important contributor to the improvement of navigation along the Russian coasts. The first lighthouses in Russia were built during tsar Peter the Great's drive for reform and modernization at the beginning of the 18th century. However, it was only until the Administration of Lighthouses was created in 1807 that the Russian lighthouse system followed an organized pattern, becoming effective and efficient. This office was established by the Russian Navy and it began under the leadership of Leontiy V. Spafaryev.
As a cartographer, perhaps his most outstanding work is the 'Atlas of the Gulf of Finland', published in 1817. His name is spelt as 'Spafarief' or 'Spafarieff' in the United States.
The Spafaryev Islands in the Sea of Okhotsk and Spafarief Bay in the coast of Alaska were named after Leontiy V. Spafaryev.
Utgav i S:t Petersburg 'Atlas of the Gulf of Finland containing the South Coast, with the Islands from cape Luserort to Cronstadt with Light houses & Towers necessary to be known for sailing by night'. Denna atlas innehåller 12 större kartor varav flera utvikbara. Stor folio.
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Atlas of the Gulf of Finland containing the South Coast, with the Islands from cape Luserort to Cronstadt with Light houses & Towers necessary to be known for sailing by night.
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