Nikolai Mikhaylovich Albov is credited with being the first European explorer to have traveled extensively over an archipelago off the southernmost tip of the South American mainland across what strait?
Nikolai Albov Nikolai Mikhaylovich Albov (Russian: Николай Михайлович Альбов , 15 October 1866 — 6 December 1897, La Plata, Argentina) was a Russian botanist and geographer. He made his mark first as an explorer of the Caucasus, to which he made several extensive trips financed by the Swiss Botanist Society, and later, after having moved to Argentina in 1895, of the Southern regions of South America. He is credited with being arguably the first European explorer to have traveled extensively over Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego and (writing in Russian and French), described its flora.
Ulya River Ulya River (Russian: Улья ) is a river in northern Khabarovsk Krai in Russia. The length of the river is 325 km , the area of its drainage basin is 15500 km2 . The Ulya originates in the Dzhugdzhur Mountains, flows northeast parallel to the coast and turns east to reach the Sea of Okhotsk about 100 km southwest of Okhotsk. It freezes up in late October through early November and remains icebound until May. The first Russian to reach the Pacific Ocean was Ivan Moskvitin who sailed down the Ulya and wintered near its mouth in 1639. Vasili Poyarkov reused his huts in 1646. The Ulya was one of the water routes to and from Okhotsk. From its tributaries either the Lama Portage or the Alachak Portage led to the Mati River which flows north to the Maya River, which leads to the Aldan River and then Lena River to Yakutsk.