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Nikolai Daurkin was a chukchi geographer known for visiting Alaska and mapping most of the continent (which was mostly geographically correct.) He also spoke the chukchi language (a native language) to speak to some of the natives. He was also actually one of the 240 soldiers who marched to the Chukchi's land and eventually fled to his Chukchi relatives. He eventually came back to the Russians with his relatives but was deported to Yakutsk. When he was being deported he decided to jot down notes about his travels around the Chukotka peninsula and even made a map around it. The map contained real life information on the bay of northern America. On June 1765 he sent a letter from Tobolsk to the Siberian governor D.Chicherin about his finding's. Daurkin declared an expedition to the Bering straight. The expedition failed due to the death of Frauendorfs death. Eventually they gained momentum to push on and eventually made it to the coast of Alaska. Even though another explorer discovered most of Alaska most of the coastal region was owned by Russia. It took over a year for Daurkin to study the native plants, animals and natives along with the geographical points. He eventually died of illness in 1795.