Georg Wilhelm Steller
Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709-46), zoologist, botanist and scientific assistant of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Between 1740 and 1741, and 1742 and 1743 he did research in Kamchatka, sailed with Vitus Bering to the shores of Alaska, spent the winter on an island which was later named Bering Island. He catalogued many sea animals, the sea cow among them for the first time. His books include About Sea Animals, A Voyage from Kamchatka to America with Naval Commodore Bering and A Description of the Land of
Kamchatka.
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