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Maclay Coast
also: берег Маклая, Берег Маклая, shore of Maclay
The northeastern coast of New Guinea, named for the Russian explorer-ethnographer Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay, whose 1870s-80s expeditions there were widely covered in the Russian press; invoked as the farthest edge of the known world.
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- On April §21 shore of Maclay
The Maclay Coast (Берег Маклая) of northeastern New Guinea, named for the Russian explorer-ethnographer Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay, whose celebrated expeditions there were widely reported in the Russian press of the 1870s-80s; Chekhov invokes it as the far edge of the civilized (and April-Fool-practicing) world.