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Jul 1, 2024 · Explorer Otto von Kotzebue Torres became an important source of information on the Carolinians for early 19th century explorers from France, Russia, and Germany including Kotzebue, Santiago Arago and Louis Claude de Freycinet , Adelbert von Chamisso, and Ferdinand P. von Lütke.
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2 days ago · Russian explorer Otto von Kotzebue was the first westerner to have undisputedly seen the atoll during his 1816 and 1817 voyages. He named it Eschscholtz Atoll after Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz , the ship's naturalist .
1 day ago · When Russian explorer Otto von Kotzebue visited the Marshalls in 1817, the islanders still showed few signs of western influence. He observed that the Marshallese lived in thatched-roof huts, but their villages did not include the large ornate meeting houses found in other parts of Micronesia.
Jul 9, 2024 · Beginning in 1806, the Indian Ocean was crossed repeatedly by Russian ships commanded by Adam Johann Krusenstern, Otto von Kotzebue, and others. Between 1819 and 1821 the expedition of the Russian explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen that circumnavigated Antarctica navigated the Indian Ocean near latitude 60° S .
Jul 19, 2024 · The British naval captains John Marshall and Thomas Gilbert partially explored the Marshalls in 1788, but much of the mapping was done by Russian expeditions under Adam Johann Krusenstern (1803) and Otto von Kotzebue (1815 and 1823).
Jul 3, 2024 · When on March 23, 1819, an unbalanced student, Karl Ludwig Sand, assassinated the conservative playwright and publicist August von Kotzebue, Vienna persuaded the princes of the German Confederation that they were facing a dangerous attempt to overthrow the established order in the German states.
Jul 18, 2024 · Otto von Kotzebue^ (1787–1846) Russian Navy captain, circumnavigator Kotzebue accompanied Ivan Krusenstern on the first Russian circumnavigation in 1803–06. On the brig Rurik he led another Russian circumnavigation in 1815–18.
