52 GEOGRAPHIC DICTIONARY OF ALASKA. [bull. 187. 



1828. Thv i,ro()<,n-aphic results of this voyage were incorporated by 

 Lutke in the Partie nautique of his voyage round the world. For an 

 aec'ount in Russian of Staniukovich's voyage see Journal of the Russian 

 Hydrographies Department, 1850, Vol. VIII, pp. 63-75. 



Stockton, 1889. 



Lieut. C'onimandcr Charles Herbert Stockton, IT. S. N., command- 

 ing the r. S. 8. Thetis^ cruised in Alaskan waters in the summer of 

 1S81I. This cruise covered the whole coast from Dixon entrance to 

 Unalaska and thence through Bering sea to the Arctic and eastward 

 to Mackenzie river. Stockton published an account of this voyage in 

 181H) in the National Geographic Magazine, Vol. II, pp. 171-198. His 

 geographic results are shown on United States Hydrographic Office 

 chart li81>, edition of 1890. 



Symonds, 1879-1881. See Beakdslee and Glass. 

 Tebenkof, 1831-1850. 



Capt. Mikhail Dmitrievich Tebenkof was director of the Russian 

 American Company and governor of Russian America during 1845- 

 1850. As early as 1881 he was in Norton sound, and in that year dis- 

 covered the bay that now bears his name. (Lutke, Partie nautique, 

 p. 220.) In 1833 he survej^ed and mapped it. His map is reproduced 

 by Lutke. In 1835 he was in St. Petersburg, and on August 5 of that 

 3^ear sailed in command of the Russian American Company's ship 

 Elena from Cronstadt for Sitka, where he arrived via Cape Horn on 

 April 16, 1836. He appears to have remained in the colonies thence- 

 forward till the close of his term as director, and then returned to i 

 Russia, To him more than to any other Russian are we indebted for 

 geographic knowledge of the Alaskan coast. Himself a surveyor and 

 interested in surveying, he gave much attention to improving charts 

 of the coast in the interest of the company. In 1848 and 1849 there 

 was compiled, drawn up, and engraved at Sitka his Atlas of the North 

 west Coast of America. This atlas of 39 maps shows the entire coast 

 line of North America from Bering strait to Lower California, with 

 adjacent islands and parts of the Siberian coast. It embodies the 

 results of the various surveys made by Russian naval officers, officers 

 of the Russian American Company, etc. The maps were engraved at 

 Sitka by Tere.ntief , a creole, and for the most part are dated 1849. It 

 is probable that they were dated from time to time during 1848 to 

 1850 as engraved and afterwards put together as an atlas in 1852. 

 With it was issued by Tebenkof a little book of Notes and Explana- 

 tions. There appear to be two editions of this book of Notes, both 

 very rare, at least in the United States. In the making of this dic- 

 tionary Tebenkof 's atlas has been consulted more than any other single 

 work. 



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