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
Steller's sea cow
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Steller's sea cow is an extinct sirenian described by Georg Wilhelm Steller in 1741. At that time, it was found only around the Commander Islands in the Bering Sea between Alaska and Russia; its range
Great Northern Expedition
…Chinese silk in a "cellar" that was found on the island. Steller also first recorded the Steller's jay that bears his name, as well as having a sea cow, Steller's Sea Cow, named after him. Chirikov and the St. Paul headed back to Russia in October with news of the land they had found…
Hydrodamalis gigas skeleton Finnish Museum of Natural History DSC04529
The skull of a Steller's sea cow, Natural History Museum of London
Model in the Natural History Museum, London
Metacarpal bone of H. cf. gigas from Japan under study