The future traveler and ethnographer, was born in St. Petersburg in the family of an engineer. From university he quickly ruled out - for participation in the student movement. So he finished the education already in Germany. From there he went to his first trip to the Canary Islands, then to Madeira, Morocco, the coast of the Red Sea. I went there as a researcher fauna and returned ethnographer. He was more interested in not animals and flowers, and people.
Maclay investigated the indigenous population of South-East Asia, Australia and the Pacific Islands. He lived for several years in the north-west coast of New Guinea, visited the islands of Oceania. He made two expeditions to the Malay Peninsula. Bystudying the indigenous people of these lands unexplored, the scientistconcluded that the species unity and kinship of different races. The last years of his life he spent in Indonesia and Australia, and even proposed a draft Union Papuan New Guinea. He conceived the researchers had to resist the invaders-colonizers. One of the last of his ideas - Russian-community co-operative in New Guinea - ideal polity.
Thescientist died in his native St. Petersburg in a hospital bed, numerousexpeditions to 42 years completely "worn out" the body. Collectionsand paper Maclay - Sixteen notebooks, six thick notebooks, plans, maps,own drawings, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, blogs fromdifferent years - were transferred to the Imperial Russian GeographicalSociety and placed in the Museum of the Imperial Academy of Sciences.
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Vasco da Gama (about 1460 (1469) – 1524) – traveler, the first European who visited India.497 Vasco da Gama sailed from Lisbon with an expedition of 3 ships in India. He walked around Africa, sailed past the Cape of Good Hope, then around Africa to the East. In Mozambique, the hikers joined the Arab Ahmad Ibn Majid helped the expedition should go directly to the Indian subcontinent, no more sailing along the coast of Africa. May 20, 1498, in the biography of Vasco da Gama, an important event happened. His squadron reached the port of Calicut. Then, embarking spices, went in the opposite way.The expedition arrived home in 1499, and brought Vasco da Gama not only the glory, and monetary reward. For his biography Vasco da Gama was in India three times. In 1519 the famous traveler became the owner of the Ducal title. Died Vasco da Gama 24 December 1524 in the Indian city of Cochin
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Maclay (1846-1888)The future traveler and ethnographer, was born in St. Petersburg in the family of an engineer. From university he quickly ruled out - for participation in the student movement. So he finished the education already in Germany. From there he went to his first trip to the Canary Islands, then to Madeira, Morocco, the coast of the Red Sea. I went there as a researcher fauna and returned ethnographer. He was more interested in not animals and flowers, and people.
Maclay investigated the indigenous population of South-East Asia, Australia and the Pacific Islands. He lived for several years in the north-west coast of New Guinea, visited the islands of Oceania. He made two expeditions to the Malay Peninsula. Bystudying the indigenous people of these lands unexplored, the scientistconcluded that the species unity and kinship of different races. The last years of his life he spent in Indonesia and Australia, and even proposed a draft Union Papuan New Guinea. He conceived the researchers had to resist the invaders-colonizers. One of the last of his ideas - Russian-community co-operative in New Guinea - ideal polity.
Thescientist died in his native St. Petersburg in a hospital bed, numerousexpeditions to 42 years completely "worn out" the body. Collectionsand paper Maclay - Sixteen notebooks, six thick notebooks, plans, maps,own drawings, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, blogs fromdifferent years - were transferred to the Imperial Russian GeographicalSociety and placed in the Museum of the Imperial Academy of Sciences.
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