- Printed source
- Martin Sauer, An Account of a Geographical and Astronomical Expedition to the Northern Parts of Russia … Performed … by Commodore Joseph Billings, in the Years 1785, &c. to 1794 (London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1802), p. 181.
Steller’s sea cow / Primary source
Martin Sauer
An Account of a Geographical and Astronomical Expedition to the Northern Parts of Russia
Martin SauerImage & authority record ↗
01 / Publication1802London: T. Cadell and W. Davies
02 / Reported event1768Last kill on Bering Island · reported, unsourced
Original text
p. 181 · extractSea cows were very numerous about the coast of Kamtshatka, and the Aleutan islands1, at the time when they were first discovered; but the last of this species was killed in 1768 on Bering’s island, and none have been ever seen since.
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Further reading
- 01Leonhard Stejneger, “How the Great Northern Sea-Cow (Rytina) Became Exterminated” (1887), American Naturalist 21(12): 1047–1054. ↗
Hunting parties on the Commander Islands after 1742, Jakovlev’s petition of 1755, and the 1768 date. - 02Samuel T. Turvey and Claire L. Risley, “Modelling the extinction of Steller’s sea cow” (2006), Biology Letters 2(1): 94–97. ↗
Estimates of the population and hunting pressure after 1741. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2005.0415.
Reference
Cite this source
Martin Sauer, An Account of a Geographical and Astronomical Expedition to the Northern Parts of Russia … Performed … by Commodore Joseph Billings, in the Years 1785, &c. to 1794 (London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1802), p. 181.