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About Joseph Billings
Joseph Billings was an English navigator, hydrographer and explorer who spent the most of his career in Russian service. From 1790 to 1794 he commanded a marine expedition that searched for a Northeast Passage and explored the coasts of Alaska and Siberia. Between 1797 and 1798 he conducted a hydrographic survey of the Black Sea.
Everything about Joseph Billings →- Occupation
- explorer, cartographer, seafarer, hydrologist
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Russian Empire, Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- 1758
- Died
- 1806