Hermann Eberhard (27 February 1852 in Ohlau,

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– 30 May 1908) was a 19th-century

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credited with western discovery of considerable lands in

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. Eberhard journeyed by boat up the Seno Última Esperanza to investigate lands previously unknown to Europeans. Eberhard is credited with the discovery of prehistoric remains of the

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at the

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. The waters of the Seno Última Esperanza would have been much higher and thus closer to the Milodon caves in the early

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, the epoch to which the milodon bones are dated.C.M. Hogan, 2008

References

*C. Michael Hogan, ''Cueva del Milodon'', Megalithic Portal, 13 April 200

*''The discovery of the region of Última Esperanza'

retrieved Aug. 2008

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19th-century explorers German explorers 1852 births 1908 deaths People from Oława People from the Province of Silesia Explorers of Chile {{Germany-explorer-stub

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