earlier in the year) was back on the sea, commanding the 90-gun Lesnoe . But the tsar soon had a new command for him.

First Kamchatka Expedition

St. Petersburg to Okhotsk

On 29 December 1724 [N.S. 9 January 1725], Peter I of Russia ordered Bering to captain the First Kamchatka Expedition, an expedition set to sail north from Russian outposts on the Kamchatka Peninsula,

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