The Bering Strait (Russian: Берингов пролив, romanized: Beringov proliv) 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 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 explorer in the service of the Russian Empire.
The Bering Strait has been the subject of the scientific theory that humans migrated from Asia to North America across a land bridge known as Beringia when lower ocean levels – a result of glaciers locking up vast amounts of water – exposed a wide stretch of the sea floor,[1] both at the present strait and in the shallow sea north and south of it. This view of how Paleo-Indians entered America has been the dominant one for several decades and continues to be the most accepted one. Numerous successful crossings without the use of a boat have also been recorded since at least the early 20th century.
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The BeringStrait (Russian: Берингов пролив, romanized: Beringov proliv) is a strait between the Pacific and Arctic oceans, separating the Chukchi Peninsula...
A BeringStrait crossing is a hypothetical bridge or tunnel that would span the relatively narrow and shallow BeringStrait between the Chukotka Peninsula...
marginal sea of the Northern Pacific Ocean. It forms, along with the BeringStrait, the divide between the two largest landmasses on Earth: Eurasia and...
of the Kamchatka Peninsula. It includes the Chukchi Sea, the Bering Sea, the BeringStrait, the Chukchi and Kamchatka Peninsulas in Russia as well as Alaska...
USS BeringStrait (AVP-34) was a United States Navy Barnegat-class small seaplane tender in commission from 1944 to 1946. She tended seaplanes during...
divide of the Americas. The Continental Divide extends from the BeringStrait to the Strait of Magellan, and separates the watersheds that drain into the...
the Beringian land bridge based purely on present bathymetry of the BeringStrait and eustatic sea level curve place the event around 11,000 years BP...
the smaller of the two Diomede Islands located in the middle of the BeringStrait between the Alaska mainland and Siberia. Little Diomede's neighboring...
Krusenstern Island The Diomede Islands are located in the middle of the BeringStrait between mainland Alaska and Siberia. If marginal seas are considered...
BeringStrait School District (BSSD) is a school district in northwestern Alaska, United States, serving approximately 1,700 students in grades K-12 in...
western coast on the North American continent. The BeringStrait, the Bering Sea, Bering Island, the Bering Glacier, and Vitus Lake were all named in his honor...
the Beaufort Sea and the Chukchi Sea, and then southwards through the BeringStrait (separating Russia and Alaska), into the Pacific Ocean. In the 21st...
Alaska/Siberia region: Bering Sea, body of water in the North Pacific Ocean BeringStrait, sea strait between Russia and Alaska Bering Island, off Kamchatka...
the first bowheads in the BeringStrait region. By 1849, 50 ships were hunting bowheads in each area; in the BeringStrait, 500 whales were killed that...
Southeast Asia, construction of a rail tunnel and highway bridge across the BeringStrait to connect the Trans-Siberian to the North American rail system, and...
Laminar armour (from Latin: lamina – layer) is an armour made from horizontal overlapping rows or bands of, usually small, solid armour plates called lames...
located in the Northwest Arctic Borough, on the Alaska North Slope, the BeringStrait and on Little Diomede Island. In Russia, few pockets of diaspora communities...
Centre, in 1991 had an extensive article, on "strait crossings" covering the then proposed BeringStrait bridge, the Gibraltar Tunnel and so on, and mentions...
which is bounded by the Chukchi Sea to the north, the Bering Sea to the south, and the BeringStrait to the east, where at its easternmost point it is only...
reached the BeringStrait and learned that McClure was ahead of him he turned back and spent the winter in Hong Kong. He returned to BeringStrait in mid-July...
century, BeringStrait Inuit traded, among other things, walrus ivory to the Chinese, for glass beads and iron goods. Prior to this, the BeringStrait Inuit...
the western island of the two Diomede Islands in the middle of the BeringStrait. The island is a part of the Chukotsky District of the Chukotka Autonomous...
Yukon territory to the east; it shares a western maritime border in the BeringStrait with Russia's Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. The Chukchi and Beaufort Seas...
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