Nicholai Nikolaevich Miklouho-Maclay was a Russian explorer of Ukrainian origin. He worked as an ethnologist, anthropologist and biologist who became famous as one of the earliest scientists to settle among and study indigenous people of New Guinea "who had never seen a European".
Ernst Haeckel with his assistant, Nicholai Miklouho-Maclay, in the Canary Islands, 1866
The Marine Biological Station (centre of photo) at Watson's Bay circa 1881.
Miklouho-Maclay, ca. 1880 in Queensland, Australia. A typically posed shot from the period to emphasise the "explorer" persona — note the Eucalyptus leaves, and explorer "tools".
Birchgrove is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Birchgrove is located five kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Inner West Council.
Birchgrove, New South Wales
former Balmain Colliery in Birchgrove
Mort Bay park, Mort Bay Birchgrove