著者

米家 志乃布

出版者

法政大学文学部

雑誌

法政大学文学部紀要 = Bulletin of Faculty of Letters, Hosei University (ISSN:04412486)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.64, pp.51-66, 2012-03-15

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In the 18th century, the Russian Empire compiled several maps in Siberia and the Far East in order to comprehend geographical information. Many Russian geographers and historians have studied the printed maps and manuscripts on the basis of Bering's Expedition between 1725 1730 and 1735 1743. The author studied some Russian manuscripts about Bering's expeditions in Moscow.Bering submitted his expedition report together with Chaplin's map to the Committee of the Admiralty in St. Petersburg in 1730. However, the original map was lost and at present, some copies and variants can be found in Russia, Sweden, Germany, France, Britain etc. Some Chaplin'smaps, show rivers and names of places along the travel route of the first expedition of Bering and are based on many other new maps of geodesists in the Russian Academy. The five copies contain pictures representing Siberian native people.A variant of Chaplin's map in the State Historical Museum in Moscow, in a 1753 manuscript, is not an original map but it is a copied version by an intellectual, who desired geographical information of unknown lands, in St. Petersburg. On this map, the representation of Kamchatka is exceedingly better than the former Russian maps, but the representation of Chukoto Peninsula is left incorrect. The next stage of Russian mapmaking of the Russian Far East began in the latter half of 18th century. The copy of Cook's map has changed shapes of Chukoto Peninsula in Russian cartography.