Kalmyk Steppe
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Kalmuk Steppe, or Kalmyk Steppe is a steppe with a land area of approximately 100,000 km², bordering the northwest Caspian Sea, bounded by the Volga on the northeast, the Manych on the southwest, and
Kalmyk Steppe
Georg Forster
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Johann George Adam Forster, also known as Georg Forster, was a German-Polish geographer, naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist and revolutionary. At an early age, he accompanied his fathe
Georg Forster in 1781, age 26
James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. 1775, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Resolution and Adventure in Matavai Bay by William Hodges
One of Forster's many illustrations of birds now extinct, the Tanna ground dove, also known as Forster's dove of Tanna