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Bookmark or Share- Bering Strait crossing - WikipediaA Bering Strait crossing is a hypothetical bridge or tunnel that would span the relatively narrow and shallow Bering Strait between the Chukotka Peninsula in Russia and the Seward Peninsula in the U.S. state of Alaska. The crossing would provide a connection linking the Americas and Afro-Eurasia.
- The Bering Strait: The Gateway to the Arctic - Ocean ConservancyLocated between Alaska and Russia, the Bering Strait is the only marine gateway between the icy Arctic and the Pacific Ocean. At its narrowest point, the strait is only 55 miles wide. The Bering Strait may be narrow, but it’s teeming with wildlife—beluga whales, bowhead whales, gray whales, walruses, polar bears, ringed and ribbon seals.
- History of the Bering Land Bridge Theory - U.S. National Park ServiceDuring the eighteenth century, Peter the Great, the Russian Czar from 1682 to 1725, chartered an exploration of the eastern borders of the Russian Empire. He recruited the Danish explorer Vitus Bering to lead an expedition in the Bering Strait region.
- Bering Strait - WikipediaThe 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.
- Bering Sea and Strait | Arctic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Wildlife | BritannicaBering Sea and Strait, northernmost part of the Pacific Ocean, separating the continents of Asia and North America. To the north the Bering Sea connects with the Arctic Ocean through the Bering Strait, at the narrowest point of which the two continents are about 53 miles (85 kilometres) apart.
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