Hermann Eberhard (27 February 1852 in Ohlau, Silesia – 30 May 1908) was a 19th-century German explorer credited with western discovery of considerable lands in

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. Eberhard journeyed by boat up the

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to investigate lands previously unknown to Europeans. Eberhard is credited with the discovery of prehistoric remains of the Giant sloth at the Cueva del Milodon Natural Monument. 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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