presentation for Comenius project

2. http://ancientworldmaps.blogspot.com/2011/03/world-map-18th-century.html

3. Introduction to Estonian travelers
• Most important way of travel was by sea.
• First Russian round-the world trip on a ship
called Nadezda.
• World’s oldest Society of Geography consisted
of: Karl Ernst von Baer, Friedrich Benjaminvon
Lütke, Ferdinand von Wrangell, Friedrich Georg
Wilhelm Struve, Adam Johann von Krusenstern
and Gregor von Helmersen.

4. • First Trip in the Russian Empire
• Great many information and tools were brought to homeland Estonia
• Laid the basis for a new sciance-Oceanology
• Final result of the expetidion- „Atlas of the Southern Seas“
• Buried in the Tallinn Dome Church

5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apianus_(crater)#mediaviewer/File:Apianus_crater_4101_h1.jpg

6. • From Saaremaa-the largest island in Estonia
• First 1/3 men in history to see Antarctica
• „Mirnõi“ and „Vostok“
• Recieved new information about the southern continent

7. http://redkalinka.com/Russian-Blog/84/_Russian-history-1st-week-of-March/

8. • A Baltic German admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy, an Antarctic explorer
• Searched for islands in the Northern Sea; in 1867 discovered an island that was
named after him as the Isle of Wrangler
• In 1825–1827 led a round-the-world expedition on "Krotki“
• Has an island, a mountain range, a bay and a cape in Alaska named after him.

9. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/05/wrangel-island/reserve-map

10. • Had Baltic German and Estonian roots.
• A Russian bio-geographer, zoologist and explorer.
• 1840 to Novaya Zemlya
• 1843-1845 to the Taymyr Peninsula.
• A bay in Taimyr Peninsula and cape in Novaya Zemlya as well as numerous
plant and animal species have been named after him.

11. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodiak_bear#mediaviewer/File:2010-kodiak-bear-1.jpg

12. Records show that two Estonians - Jakob Kukk and Hermann Regastik were
travelling on the Titanic. An announcement of Jakob Kukk´s death was published
in Estonian newspaper Postimees.
Hermann Regastik, whose name was not recorded in the official list of the crew,
survived the disaster and later lived in England and New Zealand.

13. Thank you for listening.
Enjoy your stay. 