Philip Johan von Strahlenberg travelled at a period when the map still had blanks on it, and filled some of them.
The record lists Philip Johan von Strahlenberg as Swedish officer and geographer.
Philip Johan von Strahlenberg was born at Stralsund in 1677. His recorded nationality is Sweden.
Seventeenth-century voyaging was commercial and Dutch-led, mapping coastlines for companies rather than kings.
He is recorded as explorer, cartographer and military personnel.
The record of exploration is also a record of the people already living in the places reached.
Philip Johan von Strahlenberg died in 1747, aged 70. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Recorded as explorer, cartographer and military personnel
