Eduard Toll

Eduard Vasilevich Toll (Russian Эдуард Васильевич Толль, Eduard Gustav von Toll, * 2 Märzjul / March 14 1858greg in Reval, .. † 1902 in the East Siberian Sea ) was a Russian naturalist and Arctic explorer deutschbaltischer descent.

Already during his studies at the University of Dorpat undertook Great first expeditions to North Africa and the Mediterranean. He explored the flora, fauna and geology of Algeria and the Balearic Islands.

After completing his diploma thesis in the field of zoology 1882 Toll took from 1885 to 1886 at an event organized by the Russian Academy of Sciences and Alexander Bunge ( 1851-1930 ) led polar expedition to the New Siberian Islands in part. In the course of this expedition he explored the Great Liakhov Island, Kotelny and the western coastal areas of New Siberia.

1886 Toll wanted here have seen north of Kotelny unknown land. His presumption under it was the " Sannikov Land", one of Yakov Sannikov and Matvei Gedenstrom 1808-1810 first sighted island, whose existence has never been proven.

1893 Toll was appointed by the Russian Academy of Sciences lead an expedition into northern Yakutia. He explored the lower reaches of the Lena and the Chatanga. Great was the first researcher to the plateau between Anabar and Popigai ( Попигай ) and the Prontschischtschewa - back between Olenjok and Anabar mapped, which he named after the Russian polar explorer Vasily Prontschischtschew. In the further course Toll again turned north and explored the New Siberian Islands. Toll also ran paleontological studies, he found the remains of Ice Age mammoths.

1899 Toll involved in Stepan Makarov's expedition aboard the icebreaker Yermak to Spitsbergen.

1900 Toll broke with the schooner Zarya again in Arctic waters on. The aim of the expedition was to prove the existence of Sannikov Land. Especially during the winters on the Taymyr Peninsula and the west coast Kotelnys to Toll dedicated hydrographic, geographic and geological studies. In November 1902 Toll of Bennett Island disappeared without a trace south. A subsequent rescue expedition, which was led by Alexander Kolchak, though found the diaries and scientific collections of the Zarya expedition; Toll and his crew remained but lost.

After Toll mountains on Novaya Zemlya and the Bennett Island are also named as a bay of the Taimyr peninsula and a cape on the island of circular plasmid ( Циркуль ). Furthermore, a plateau at Kotelny bears his name.