Georg Wilhelm Steller
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Georg Wilhelm Steller was a German-born naturalist and explorer who contributed to the fields of biology, zoology, and ethnography. He participated in the Great Northern Expedition and his observation
Modern depiction of a young Steller by Vadim Sanakoyev, 1996.
Steller's Arch on Bering Island
A 2009 memorial to Steller in a riverside park in Tyumen, Siberia, where he had died of fever at age 37.
A statue in Bad Windsheim commemorating Georg Wilhelm Steller
Great Northern Expedition
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The Great Northern Expedition or Second Kamchatka Expedition was a major Russian Arctic expedition between roughly 1733 and 1743, which mapped most of the Arctic coast of Siberia and much of the Arcti
Vitus Bering
Contemporary depiction of the main building of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg. Plate entitled Cross-section of the imperial library and art room towards morning, taken from a series of twelve etchings published in 1741. They were the first collaborative work from the workshops of the St. Petersburg academy.
1957 Soviet stamp depicting the Bering voyage
Johann Georg Gmelin