About the book: 1985 / Given in volume IV characteristics of the first Russian circumnavigations and the Bellingshausen-Lazarev expedition that discovered Antarctica. Of great interest is the material on the study of the European North and the search for the Northwest Passage, on the exploration of Greenland, the Central Arctic and the achievement of the North Pole. For the first time, publications were given of the scientific achievements of Western Europeans in the Himalayas and Western Asia, Indians in Tibet