Georg Wilhelm Steller (March 10, 1709 - November 14, 1746) was a German botanist, zoologist, physician and explorer, who worked in Russia and present-day Alaska. is the 69th day of the year (70th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... // Events January 12 - Two-month freezing period begins in France - The coast of the Atlantic and Seine River freeze, crops fail and at least 24. ... is the 318th day of the year (319th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... // Events Catharine de Ricci (born 1522) canonized. ... Botany is the scientific study of plant life. ... Zoology (Greek zoon = animal and logos = word) is the biological discipline which involves the study of animals. ... For other uses, see Doctor. ... This list of explorers is sorted by surname. ... For other uses, see Alaska (disambiguation). ...

Biography

Steller was born in Windsheim, near Nuremberg, son to Johann Jakob Stöhler (after 1715, Stöller) and studied at the University of Wittenberg. He then traveled to Russia to work at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, arriving in November 1734. coat of arms Bad Windsheim is a small historic city in Bavaria, Germany. ... Nürnberg redirects here. ... Statue of Martin Luther in the main square Wittenberg, officially [Die] Lutherstadt Wittenberg, is a town in Germany, in the Bundesland Saxony-Anhalt, at 12° 59 E, 51° 51 N, on the Elbe river. ... Original headquarters of the Imperial Academy of Sciences - the Kunstkammer in Saint Petersburg. ...

Steller was appointed as naturalist on Vitus Bering's Second Kamchatka Expedition, to chart the Siberian coast of the Arctic Ocean and search an eastern passage to North America. He left Saint Petersburg in January 1738, eventually reaching Okhotsk on the east coast in August 1740. It was here that he met Bering for the first time. A portrait attributed to Vitus Bering (according to modern data, his uncles portrait) Vitus Jonassen Bering (also, less correctly, Behring) (August 1681–December 19, 1741) was a Danish-born navigator in the service of the Russian Navy, a captain-komandor known among the Russian sailors as Ivan Ivanovich. ... This article is about Siberia as a whole. ... North American redirects here. ... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland... Okhotsk (Охо́тск) is a townlet and seaport at the mouth of the Okhota River on the Sea of Okhotsk, Russia. ...

In September the expedition sailed to the Kamchatka Peninsula. Steller spent the winter in Bolsheretsk, where he helped to organize a local school. He was then appointed to join Bering on the voyage to America. The expedition landed in Alaska at Kayak Island on Monday, July 20th, 1741, staying only long enough to take on fresh water. During this time Steller became the first European naturalist to describe a number of North American plants and animals, including a jay later named Steller's Jay. “Kamchatka” redirects here. ... For other uses, see Alaska (disambiguation). ... Kayak Island (59° 56′ 03″ N 144° 22′ 06″ W) is located in the Gulf of Alaska, 100 km (62 mi) SE of Cordova, Alaska Malaspina Coastal Plain. ... Binomial name (Gmelin, 1788) Stellers Jay range The Stellers Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri) is a jay native to western North America, closely related to the Blue Jay found in the rest of the continent, but with a black head and upper body. ...

On the return journey the expedition was shipwrecked on what later became known as Bering Island. Here Bering died, and almost half of the crew perished from scurvy. The remaining men settled with little food or water only to survive the winter, the camp plagued by Arctic Foxes. During this time Steller wrote De Bestiis Marinis, describing the fauna of the island, including the Northern Fur Seal, the Sea Otter, Steller's (or Northern) Sea Lion, Steller's Sea Cow, Steller's Eider and Spectacled Cormorant. Both the Sea Cow and the Cormorant were later hunted to extinction. Stellar claimed the only recorded sighting of a marine creature later dubbed the Sea Ape. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Scurvy (N.Lat. ... Binomial name (Linnaeus, 1758) Arctic Fox range The Arctic Fox (Vulpes lagopus), also known as the White Fox or Snow Fox, is a fox of the order Carnivora. ... Binomial name Callorhinus ursinus Linnaeus, 1758 Range map The Northern Fur Seal, Callorhinus ursinus, is an eared seal. ... Binomial name Enhydra lutris (Linnaeus, 1758) The Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) is a large otter native to the North Pacific, from northern Japan and Kamchatka west across the Aleutian Islands south to California. ... Binomial name Eumetopias jubatus (Schreber, 1776) The Stellers sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus), also known as the Northern Sea Lion, is a sea lion of the temperate eastern Pacific, named by Georg Steller. ... Binomial name (Zimmermann, 1780) Stellers Sea Cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) is an extinct, large sirenian mammal formerly found near the Asiatic coast of the Bering Sea. ... Binomial name Polysticta stelleri Pallas, 1769 The Stellers Eider (Polysticta stelleri) is a medium-large sea duck, which breeds along the arctic coasts of eastern Siberia and Alaska. ... Binomial name Phalacrocorax perspicillatus Pallas, 1811 The Spectacled Cormorant (Phalacrocorax perspicillatus) is an extinct marine bird of the cormorant family of seabirds that inhabited a few islands at the western end of the Aleutian Islands. ... For other uses, see Extinction (disambiguation). ...

In the spring the crew constructed a new vessel to return to Avacha Bay. Steller spent the next two years exploring the Kamchatka peninsula. He was recalled to Saint Petersburg but caught a fever on the journey and died at Tyumen. Petropavlovsk and Avacha Volcano, as seen from Avacha Bay Avacha Bay (Russian: ) is a Pacific Ocean bay by the southwestern coast of Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. ... Tymen in the 1680s Tyumen (Тюме́нь) is a city in Russia, administrative center of Tyumen Oblast in the Urals Federal District . ...

His journals did reach the Academy and were published by Peter Simon Pallas. They were used by future explorers of the North Pacific, including Captain Cook. Peter Simon Pallas (September 22, 1741 - September 8, 1811) was a German-born Russian zoologist. ... British explorer James Cook is most noted for having discovered Australia and Hawaii. ...

There is a secondary school in Anchorage, Alaska named after him: see Steller Secondary School. Latin name redirects here. ... u fuck in ua ... Botany is the scientific study of plant life. ... This is a list of botanists by their author abbreviation, including that established by Brummitt & Powell (1992), designed for citation in the botanical names they have published. ... This article is about the city in the U.S. state of Alaska. ... Steller Secondary School is an alternative school located in Anchorage, Alaska. ...

Animals and plants named after Georg Steller include:

• Steller's Eider
• Steller's Jay
• Steller's Sea Cow
• Steller's Sea Eagle
• Steller's Sea Lion
• Cryptochiton stelleri, the Gumboot chiton
• Artemisia stelleriana, a species of wormwood

Binomial name Polysticta stelleri Pallas, 1769 The Stellers Eider (Polysticta stelleri) is a medium-large sea duck, which breeds along the arctic coasts of eastern Siberia and Alaska. ... Binomial name (Gmelin, 1788) Stellers Jay range The Stellers Jay (Cyanocitta stelleri) is a jay native to western North America, closely related to the Blue Jay found in the rest of the continent, but with a black head and upper body. ... Binomial name (Zimmermann, 1780) Stellers Sea Cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) is an extinct, large sirenian mammal formerly found near the Asiatic coast of the Bering Sea. ... Binomial name Haliaeetus pelagicus (Pallas, 1811) Red: breeding only Green: resident all year Dark blue: winter only Light blue: vagrant range. ... Binomial name Eumetopias jubatus (Schreber, 1776) The Stellers sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus), also known as the Northern Sea Lion, is a sea lion of the temperate eastern Pacific, named by Georg Steller. ... Binomial name Cryptochiton stelleri (Middendorff, 1847) The Gumboot chiton (Cryptochiton stelleri), also known as the Giant Pacific chiton, is the largest member of the chiton family, growing to 33 centimeters (13 in). ... Species See text Artemisia abrotanum (Southernwood) Artemisia absinthium (Absinth Wormwood) Artemisia alba Artemisia Powys Castle Artemisia californica (California Sagebrush) leaves Artemisia mauiensis (Maui Wormwood) Artemisia pontica (Roman Wormwood) Artemisia pycnocephala (Beach Sagewort) flowers Dried Artemisia absinthium (Absinth Wormwood) Artemisia absinthium (Absinth Wormwood) Artemisia cina (Levant Wormseed) Artemisia is a large...

References

• Barbara and Richard Mearns - Biographies for Birdwatchers ISBN 0-12-487422-3
• Leonhard Stejneger - Georg Wilhelm Steller, the pioneer of Alaskan natural history. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard university press, 1936.
• Georg Steller - Journal of a Voyage with Bering, 1741-1742 edited by O. Frost. Stanford University Press,1993. ISBN 0-80472181-5

Sources

• Steller's 1741 expedition from Kamchatka is covered in Orcutt Frost's Bering: the Russian discovery of America (Yale UP, 2004).
• An English translation of Steller's De bestiis marinis (1751) is online here
• Steller is also the subject of the second section of W. G. Sebald's book-length poem, After Nature (2002).

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External links

• (Russian) Commander (Komandorskie) Islands
• (Russian) Steller, Georg Wilhelm
• De Bestiis Marinis, or, The Beasts of the Sea (1751) English translation online edition

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