Shpanberg Martyn Petrovich 
(31.12.1696–26.08.1761)

Dane by descent, sailor in the service of Russia, captain of rank 1, participant of the 1st and 2nd Kamchatka expeditions, explorer of the North Pacific, the Kuril Islands and Japan. 
Born in the village of Erne near the modern city of Esbjerg (Denmark). In 1721 he was accepted to the Russian service as a lieutenant. In 1724, commanding the St. Jacob packet case, made the first cargo-passenger flights between Kronstadt and Lubeck. 
From 1725 he was in the 1st Kamchatka Expedition, in 1727 he was promoted to lieutenant commander. In 1728, under the command of “Saint Gabriel” under the command of V. Bering, he moved from Nizhnekamchatsk to the Chukchi Sea. Participated in the inventory of the Chukchi Peninsula and the opening of the Bay of the Cross, St. Lawrence Island, one of Diomede's islands and the Bay of Transfiguration. 
In 1730 he returned to St. Petersburg through Siberia, and in 1732 he was appointed to the 2nd Kamchatka expedition. His detachment was entrusted with organizing navigation “for the sake of observation and finding a way to Japan”, acquaintance with its inhabitants, description of islands, marinas, and natural resources. Produced in January 1733 to the captains of the colonel rank Shpanberg, in February, he and his crew left St. Petersburg for Tobolsk and further to Yakutsk to prepare transport ships for the needs of the expedition to Irtysh and Lena. 
In 1734, on arrival in Okhotsk, he organized the construction of 2 vessels: the brigantine Archangel Michael and the dubble boat Nadezhda, which were launched in July 1737. A year later, they went south to Japan. Brigantine commanded Shpanberg, dubel-boat - B. Walton. Shpanberg reached 45°N (the latituge of Iturup Island, which he called Hope). On the way back, he mapped 31 islands and gave them Russian names. 
In 1739 Španberg on the same brigantine led an expedition of 4 ships. At the island of Honshu, the Russians first met the Japanese and exchanged gifts. From here, the travelers headed north-east; dear Shpanberg saw many islands, but due to the fact that his people were sick, he did not pester the coast and returned to Bolsheretsk on July 14. Arriving later in Okhotsk, where he found Bering, he told him his further plan for the expedition: he thought to go with a large number of satellites to the newly discovered islands and bring their inhabitants to Russian citizenship. Bering offered Spanberg to personally go to Petersburg to present his project. He went, but due to the prohibition of the Admiralty Board, he had to stop in Yakutsk, since the investigation had begun because of the suspicion that he had not been to Japan at all, but had sailed along the coast of Korea. The investigation showed, however, that Shpanberg’s trip to Japan was not a fiction, but the information he collected was not accurate enough. He was ordered to resume the expedition. In the summer of 1741 Shpanberg made his third voyage to the Kuril Islands, having pre-ordered the dinghy “Hope” under the command of midshipman Shelting with surveyor Fedorov to list the western shores of the Sea of Okhotsk to the mouth of the Amur. Shpanberg failed to carry out his plan. He intended to resume swimming, when on September 23, 1743, under the Highest Decree, the expedition was ordered to stop. 
Shpanberg returned to St. Petersburg and remained for many years in the Russian naval service. In 1749, commanding the ship "Varahail" on the Arkhangelsk raid, crashed, which killed 28 people. Shpanberg was arrested, but was acquitted in December 1752. Until 1761 he served in the Baltic. 
He died in Kronstadt. 
Cape in the Gulf of Anadyr, Bering Sea. It was discovered, examined and named in 1828 by the expedition of F.P. Litke on the sloop "Senyavin". 
Mountain on the shore of the Gulf of Anadyr. Named on the cape. 
The island among the islands Pakhtusova in the archipelago of Nordenskiöld. Called by the Russian Polar Expedition in 1901. Approximately mapped by F.A. Mathisen. It was described and filmed in 1938 by a hydrographic expedition of the  Main Directorate of the Northern Sea Route on a hydrographic vessel "Nord" under the leadership of A.I. Kosoy.