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evidently because until the most recent times there has
been a doubt in regard to Chelyuskin’s statement that
he had reached the most northerly point of Asia.
After the voyage of the Vega, however, there can no
longer be any doubt.”[1]
The truth is, ever since 1843,[2] when Middendorff
published the preliminary account of his expedition to
the Taimyr peninsula, no doubt has prevailed that all
who are familiar with Russian literature, or even with
German literature, on this subject, have long since been
convinced of the fact that the most northern point of
Asia was visited and charted a century and a half ago,—
that the details of Chelyuskin’s expedition, so far from
being unknown, are those parts of the work of the
Northern Expedition which have been most thoroughly
investigated and most often presented. Nordenskjöld’s
recognition of Chelyuskin’s work comes thirty-eight years too late;
it has already been treated with quite a different degree
of thoroughness than by the few words expended on it in
the “Voyage of the Vega.” In 1841, Von Baer accused
Chelyuskin of having dishonestly given the latitude of
the most northerly point of Asia, and these charges
Nordenskjöld prints as late as 1881 without any comment
whatever. If he had only seen Von Baer’s magazine for
1845[3], he would there have found the most unreserved
retraction of them and most complete restitution to
Chelyuskin on the part of Von Baer, and would thus have
escaped ascribing to a man opinions which he renounced
a generation ago. Middendorff is likewise very
painstaking in presenting the history of these measurements,
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