June 1741
Departure for North America
Bering sailed from Kamchatka aboard the St Peter to search for the North American coast.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Petropavlovsk in Denmark. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Bering sailed from Kamchatka aboard the St Peter to search for the North American coast.
Provenance
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