{"id":36207,"date":"2025-04-25T11:11:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T09:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meremuuseum.ee\/?page_id=36207"},"modified":"2025-11-19T13:00:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:00:35","slug":"conference2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/meremuuseum-test.krabu.tech\/en\/conference2025\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Revisiting European Maritime Exploration in the Pacific Ocean (c. 1750\u20131850)"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Tallinn, Estonia | November 5\u20137, 2025<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span>\"\"
The international conference “Revisiting European Maritime Exploration in the Pacific Ocean (c.1750 \u2013 1850)”<\/strong> represents a continuation of the Estonian Maritime Museum’s recent scholarly initiatives, which have brought renewed attention to the contributions of Baltic German explorers and navigators.<\/p>\r\n

The November conference aims to foster international academic discourse on themes associated with European exploration voyages to the Pacific Ocean during the period c.1750 \u2013 1850. This era witnessed major European maritime powers dispatching numerous expeditions to the Pacific, whose scientific achievements were subsequently published in the form of travel narratives, atlases, cartographic works, and scholarly articles. This period also saw the resolution of several significant geographical questions, including the comprehensive mapping of Australia and New Zealand, the discovery of Antarctica, and the systematic charting of the central Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\r\n

This important chapter in maritime history produced legendary names such as British explorers James Cook, George Vancouver, Matthew Flinders, and Frederick William Beechey; French navigators Louis Antoine de Bougainville, Jean-Fran\u00e7ois de La P\u00e9rouse, Nicolas Baudin, Louis Isidore Duperrey, and Jules Dumont d’Urville; and Spanish explorer Alejandro Malaspina. Among the distinguished explorers of this period were also the Estonian-born Baltic German navigators: Adam Johann von Krusenstern, Otto von Kotzebue, Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Ferdinand von Wrangell, and Friedrich Benjamin von L\u00fctke.<\/p>\r\n

While Baltic German explorers secured a prominent position within European maritime exploration circles, Adam Johann von Krusenstern served as a unifying figure among all the aforementioned navigators. Between 1824 \u2013 1827, Krusenstern published his Pacific Ocean atlas, which synthesized the cumulative work of the era. Through his analysis of historical and contemporary materials and extensive correspondence with distinguished European navigators and scholars, von Krusenstern compiled a cartographic collection that was among the first of its kind and notably one of the most accurate. His work gained international recognition and utilization, with Estonian-born Baltic Germans making substantial contributions to this achievement. Of particular note is the fascinating fact that Krusenstern compiled this atlas at Kiltsi Manor in Estonia.<\/p>\r\n

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