Joseph Billings
British-Russian explorer (d. 1806) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the architect in Boston, Massachusetts, see Joseph Edward Billings.
Joseph Billings (c.1758 ā 1806) was an English navigator, hydrographer and explorer who spent the most of his career in Russian service. From 1790 to 1794 he commanded a marine expedition that searched for a Northeast Passage and explored the coasts of Alaska and Siberia. Between 1797 and 1798 he conducted a hydrographic survey of the Black Sea.