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the vessel ran ashore was four or five miles north of the
present Cape Khitroff. In Waxel’s journal the
geographical position is entered as 55° 5′ north latitude, but Fr.
Lütke gives it as latitude 54° 58′ and longitude 193° 23′
west from Greenwich. On his large map of a part of
the Aleutian Islands, with Russian and French text, he
marks the place of landing at this point with these words:
“C’est près de cet endroit que le commandeur Bering a
fait naufrage”[1] (i. e., in the vicinity of this place Bering
stranded). This place is at about the center of the
eastern coast of the island, which extends at least 28′
farther north to Cape Waxel, and hence only from a
local point of view, just as it must have seemed to Steller
as the vessel approached land, can this receding part of
the coast be designated as the northern side of the
island. The view here set forth is further corroborated
by many places in Steller’s diary, and by other accounts
of the stay on the island.[2]
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