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Etymology. The present name of Fort Ross appears first on a French chart published in 1842 by Eugène Duflot de Mofras, who visited California in 1840. The name of the fort is said to derive from the Russian word rus or ros, the same root as the word "Russia" (Pоссия, Rossiya) (Fort Ross (Russian: Форт-Росс, Kashaya mé·ṭiʔni), originally Fortress Ross (pre-reformed Russian ...
California Department of Parks and Recreation. Fort Ross State Historic Park is a historical state park in Sonoma County, California, including the former Russian fur trading outpost of Fort Ross plus the adjacent coastline and native coast redwood forests extending inland. It is located on the northern California coast about 12 miles north of ...
Fort Ross is an abandoned former trading post on Somerset Island, in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, Canada. Founded in 1937, it was the last trading post to be established by the Hudson's Bay Company. It was operational for only eleven years, being abandoned in 1948, as severe ice conditions in the surrounding waters made the site hard to ...
By 1818 Fort Ross had a population of 128, consisting of 26 Russians and of 102 Native Americans. [5] : 181 The Russians maintained it until 1841, when they left the region. [21] As of 2015 [update] Fort Ross is a Federal National Historical Landmark on the National Register of Historic Places .
The Rotchev House is located in Fort Ross State Historic Park, located on the Northern California coastline of Sonoma County. It is a single-story structure measuring about 36 by 48 feet (11 m × 15 m), built out of hand-squared redwood timbers joined by notches at the corners. It is covered by a steeply pitched hip roof fashioned out of split ...
Bellot Strait. / 72.000°N 94.750°W / 72.000; -94.750. Bellot Strait is a strait in Nunavut that separates Somerset Island to its north from the Murchison Promontory of Boothia Peninsula to its south, which is the northernmost part of the mainland of the Americas. The two-kilometre-wide (1.2 mi) and 25-kilometre-long (16 mi) strait ...
Fortrose ("Channery") in an 18th-century Jacobian broadside. Fortrose is a town and former royal burgh in Highland, Scotland, United Kingdom. [2] [3] It is located on the Black Isle, a peninsula on the Moray Firth. It is about six miles (ten kilometres) northeast of Inverness. The burgh is a popular location for trying to spot bottlenose ...
A California fur trapper with his pelts. Before the 1849 California Gold Rush, American, English and Russian fur hunters were drawn to Spanish (and then Mexican) California in a California Fur Rush, to exploit its enormous fur resources. [1] Before 1825, these Europeans were drawn to the northern and central California coast to harvest ...