Nagai Island
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Nagai Island is one of the largest of the Shumagin Islands in the Gulf of Alaska, south of the Alaska Peninsula considered a part of the NE Aleutian Range. It is located in the United States state of
Shumagin Islands, Nagai Island, 1985
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
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.