New Map of Lake Baikal, surveyed during its circumnavigation in 1772 and 1773 (from Bemerkungen einer Reise, vol. 1, 1775)

Why it matters

First survey-based map of Lake Baikal, replacing the schematic Baikal of earlier Tartary maps.

Places named

• Lake Baikal
• Irkutsk
• Selenga
• Barguzin

Lake Baikal; Irkutsk; Selenga delta; Barguzin

Who copied whom

• New geographical description of Great Tartary, eastern and western, in its… M080, 1720s
  this one corrects it (stated)
  Georgi's survey supersedes Strahlenberg's Baikal
• Chertezh vsekh sibirskikh gorodov i zemel’ M006, 1699
  this one corrects it (probable)
  Georgi's survey supersedes Remezov's Baikal (card names Remezov, not a sheet)

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