In the history of exploration, Friedrich Parrot is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Friedrich Parrot as Baltic German explorer (1791-1841).
Friedrich Parrot was born at Karlsruhe in 1791. His recorded nationality is Russian Empire.
Enlightenment expeditions carried naturalists and instruments; the Pacific was charted with chronometers and the intention of measuring, not merely claiming.
He is recorded as explorer, physicist and university teacher.
Distance was the hardest problem of the pre-modern world, and it was solved by people willing to risk it.
Friedrich Parrot died in 1841, aged 50. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Recorded as explorer, physicist and university teacher
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