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Following the Napoleonic wars, Krusenstern pushed fornew voyages of exploration.
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Russian Big Diomede Island (also called Ratmanov and Imaqliq) on the left; American Little Diomede Island (also Krusenstern and Inaliq) on the right, on either side of the border between Russia and Alaska, and the International Date Line.
DesignerBlog Will 2008
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Russian Big Diomede Island (also called Ratmanov and Imaqliq) on the left; American Little Diomede Island (also Krusenstern and Inaliq) on the right, on either side of the border between Russia and Alaska, and the International Date Line.
Archive 2008-09-01 Will 2008
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The western limit within which the territories and dominion conveyed are contained passes through a point in Behrings Straits on the parallel of sixty-five degrees thirty minutes north latitude, at its intersection by the meridian which passes midway between the islands of Krusenstern of Ignalook, and the island of Ratmanoff, or Noonarbook, and proceeds due north without limitation, into the same Frozen Ocean.
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He had known, of course, of the law that forbade the Spanish colonies to trade with foreign ships, but he had relied partly upon the use he could make of the orders given by the Spanish King at the request of the Tsar regarding the expedition under Krusenstern, partly upon his own wit and address.
Rezánov 1906
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Lieutenant Krusenstern had prevailed on the Russian government to send supplies to the Russian
Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward 1903
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With Krusenstern went Rezanoff, who had helped the fur traders to obtain their charter, and was now commissioned to open an embassy to Japan.
Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward 1903
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From the most westerly point of Alaska to the most easterly point of the little Diomede (Ratmanoff) the distance is about fifteen miles, and from the most easterly point of Siberia to the most westerly point of the big Diomede (Krusenstern) the distance is about twenty miles.
From Paris to New York by Land Harry De Windt 1894
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Ahead of us, as we travelled north making a bee-line for the end of the peninsula, all the afternoon, loomed the rocky promontory of Krusenstern, one of Kotzebue's capes, and far beyond, stretching up the dim coast-line, lay the way to Point Hope.
Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska Hudson Stuck 1891
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The naval officer Krusenstern conceived the idea that it would be possible to attain all the objects of his sovereign, and to open up a new channel for a profitable trade, by establishing communications by sea with Canton, where the Russian flag had never been seen.
China Demetrius Charles Boulger 1890
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