While in service to Russia in 1741, this Dane died of scurvy on the island that now bears his name
When first Spitzbergen was discovered, in the good old times, there 
were ... many of them bear, accordingly, such names as English Bay, Danes Bay, 
and ..... Behring, a Dane by birth but in the Russian service, died here in 1741, 
upon... [DOC] [TLE] Empires In The Northwest | American History Lives at American ... [PAR] The Russian Tsar, Peter the Great, thought it would be a neat coup if he could 
beat the ... Today we know that Frobisher's inlet, discovered in 1576 during his 
first North ..... To this monstrous mountain he gave the name it still bears, St. Elias
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