Alexander von Bunge (physician)

Alexander von Bunge (Russian: Александр Александрович Бунге 9 November 1851, in Dorpat – 19 January 1930, in Tallinn) was a Baltic German physician, zoologist and Arctic explorer in the employ of the Russian Empire.

[1] Here, he enlisted with the Russian Geographical Society on a meteorological expedition to the Lena River delta (1882–1884).

[2][3] In 1885–86, with geologist Eduard von Toll (1858–1902), he participated on a scientific journey to the Verkhoyansk region and the New Siberian Islands.

On the expedition, they found the remains of mammoths[4] and the fossils of other large mammals, and in the process, demonstrated that the New Siberian Islands had a relatively warm climate during the Late Pleistocene.

In 1918 he relocated to Estonia, taking up residence at Mõtliku, a farmstead he inherited from his father.