1700s
- Vitus Bering
- 1712 M. Vagin and Ya. Permyakov explore vicinity of mouth of Yana River and adjoining coast
- 1733–43 Great Northern Expedition / Second Kamchatka expedition explores coast from the Ob River to the Lena River
- 1751–53 Peder Olsen Walløe explores the east coast of Greenland from Cape Farewell in umiaks
- 1760-63 S.F. Loshkin explores Novaya Zemlya
- 1765-66 V.Ya. Chichagov explores Kola Peninsula coast and Spitzbergen
- 1768-69 F.F. Rozmyslov explores Novaya Zemlya and Matochkin Shar Strait
- 1773 Captain Constantine Phipps in HMS Carcass and Commander Skeffington Lutwidge in HMS Racehorse reach 80° 37' N, with a young Midshipman Horatio Nelson among the crew.
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