This picture is from the 1771 Encyclopedia Britannica.

I found it quite strange that Alaska and environs is catalogued as “Parts Undiscovered.”

In the late 18th century? Europeans knew NOTHING about these vast lands?

I know from centuries ago at school that Russia sold/ceded/gave (?) Alaska to Canada but that is all.

Did this part of our world still belong to the “Russian Horde/Tartary” and thereby remain independent from the 17th century Romanov pogroms? I don’t know for sure. But I will quote Fomenko et al again….

“Russian Alaska was the last remnant of these lands (Tartary) in the 19th/20th cc. How ever, according to the map, the remnants of THE GREAT EMPIRE had covered a much larger part of the land in the 18th c, including all of modern Canada to the west from Hudson Bay, and a part of the Northern United States.”

My history of this area of OUR world is patchy and incomplete…. so I’ll make a call out to anyone who can provide more information. Please :o)

Many thanks