Cape Chroustcheff

Cape Chroustcheff (53˚13'00" 131˚47'00" NE side of Moresby I, QCI). This name, which is also spelled Chroutschoff and Khrushchoff in various documents, refers to the cdr of the Russian naval sloop Apollo, who was in these waters in 1821 and whose account of his voyage was published at St Petersburg in 1847. The name first appears on an 1856 Admiralty chart that was prepared from Capt George Vancouver’s 1792 chart, with corrections from 1849 Russian charts. Russian vessels, manned with Aleut...

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