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Name	Nicholai Nicholaievich Mikluho-Maklai
Alternative Names	Nicholas Maclay
Born	17 July, 1846 Rozhdestvenskoye, Russia
Died	2 April, 1888 (aged 41) St Petersburg, Russia
Cultural Heritage	Russian Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Occupation or Descriptor *	anthropologist (1871-1883) Papua New Guinea, Australia explorer (1871-1877) Papua New Guinea, Australia marine biologist (1878-1886) New South Wales, Australia naturalist (1878-1886) New South Wales, Australia anthropologist (1880-1880) Queensland, Australia palaeontologist (1880-1880) Queensland, Australia museum administrator (1881-1882) New South Wales, Australia

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