Historical place archive

Peter I Island in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Peter I Island in Russia. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

2 records1 event labels2 people1803–1821

Historical events in Peter I Island

1803

1803
Discovery of Peter I Island
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshousen · Exploration and Discovery

Discovers Peter I Island

1821

22 January 1821
Discovery of Peter I Island
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen · Exploration and Discovery

Discovers and names Peter I Island during the Russian Antarctic expedition

Provenance

About these place records

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