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Facts

Date 1733 - 1745
Location Russia

Key People

Steller's sea cow
Georg W. Steller
zoologist and botanist
Vitus Bering's expedition
Vitus Bering
Danish explorer
Aleksey Ilich Chirikov
Russian explorer