Carl von Ditmar, 1822–92: a geologist in Kamchatka
From 1851 to 1855, the Baltic-German geologist Carl von Ditmar explored and made scientific observations of Kamchatka. This area had first been scientifically investigated by Georg Wilhelm Steller and Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov in the 1730s and 1740s. However, until the last decade of the ninet...
Published in: | Polar Record |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
2003
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247403223172 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247403223172 |