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[[File:Admiral Bellingshausen.jpg|thumb|right|300px|1935 drawing of Bellingshausen]] | [[File:Admiral Bellingshausen.jpg|thumb|right|300px|1935 drawing of Bellingshausen]] | ||
'''Fabian Gottlieb Thaddeus von Bellingshausen''' (20 September 1778 – 25 January 1852), a [[Westarctica | '''Fabian Gottlieb Thaddeus von Bellingshausen''' (20 September 1778 – 25 January 1852), a [[Foreign relations of Westarctica|Russian]] officer of Baltic German descent in the Imperial Russian Navy, cartographer and explorer, ultimately rose to the rank of Admiral. He participated in the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe and subsequently became a leader of another circumnavigation expedition which discovered the continent of [[Antarctica]]. | ||
==Life in the Imperial Russian Navy== | ==Life in the Imperial Russian Navy== | ||