The development of our knowledge of the north coast of
Asia--Herodotus--Strabo--Pliny--Marco Polo--Herbertstein's
map--The conquest of Siberia by the Russians--Deschnev's
voyages--Coast navigation between the Lena and the Kolyma--Accounts
of islands in the Polar Sea and old voyages to them--The
discovery of Kamchatka--The navigation of the Sea of Okotsk is
opened by Swedish prisoners of war--The Great Northern
Expedition--Behring--Schalaurov--Andrejev's Land--The New
Siberian islands--Hedenstroem's expeditions--Anjou and
Wrangel--Voyages from Behring's Straits westward--Fictitious
Polar voyages.