Bering Strait
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The Bering Strait is a strait between the Pacific and Arctic oceans, separating the Chukchi Peninsula of the Russian Far East from the Seward Peninsula of Alaska. The present Russia–United States mari
Little Diomede Island (US, left) and Big Diomede Island (Russia, right)
Vitus Bering
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Vitus Jonassen Bering, also known as Ivan Ivanovich Bering, was a Danish-born Russian cartographer, explorer, and officer in the Russian Navy. He is known as a leader of two Russian expeditions, the F
Bering Strait
…States maritime boundary is at 168° 58' 37" W longitude, slightly south of the Arctic Circle at about 65° 40' N latitude. The Strait is named after Vitus Bering, a Danish-born Russian explorer. The Bering Strait has been the subject of the scientific theory that humans migrated from Asia to North America across…
Vitus Bering reconstruction
A portrait once believed to be of Vitus Bering (according to later data, it is probably of his uncle)
1966 Soviet postage stamp depicting Bering's second voyage and the discovery of the Commander Islands
Vitus Bering's expedition being wrecked on the Aleutian Islands in 1741.