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
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.
Bering Island
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Bering Island is located off the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Bering Sea.
Vitus Bering
…the northeastern coast of the Asian continent and from there the western coast of the North American continent. The Bering Strait, the Bering Sea, Bering Island, the Bering Glacier, and Vitus Lake were all named in his honor. Vitus Bering was born in the port town of Horsens in Denmark to Anne Pedderdatter and…
Bering Island from space, March 1992
Group of Aleut hunters from Bering Island in the mid 1880s.
The grave of Vitus Bering
Steller's Arch