Explorer who lent his name to a strait off Alaska

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But already de Batz had quickly joined his friend, and his smooth, pleasant voice, and podgy, beringed hand extended towards Mlle.

There was little doubt that the first humans to enter the Americas came via the Bering Land Bridge, expanding into new territory and hunting the large Pleistocene mammals as they had done in the Old World where there were numerous, well-documented archeological sites.

Kayak Bill, who had once seen a tidal wave on Bering Sea, pictured it advancing in the grey unnatural night from the far reaches of the ocean, growing larger and larger as it neared the shallows off Kon Klayu, and then, tossing its dancing crest to the sky in gigantic abandon, curling down from aloft in green-white, crushing splendor and flinging itself far over the beachline in its endeavor to encompass them all.

Introduction Like other original peoples of the Americas, the Chibcha of Colombia may have roots in northern Asia from which as many as 42,000 years ago they are thought to have crossed the Bering Strait into Alaska, reaching South America by 6000 B.

Cook now scuds across Bering Strait thirty-nine miles to the Chukchee land of Siberia in Asia.

From the Chukchee villages of Asia, Cook sailed back to the American coast, passing north of Bering Straits directly in mid-channel.

A line of yellow-flagged pins marked off a route from the Chukchi Peninsula across the Bering Sea and ended in north Alaska.

Dawson to demonstrate that much of the Bering and Chukchi seas, including Bering Strait, was less than 600 feet deep.

Bering and Chukchi seas between Asia and North America is more than 1,000 kilometers wide.

George Davidson, President of the Geographical Society of the Pacific, has written an irrefutable pamphlet on why Kyak Island and Sitka Sound must be accepted as the landfalls of Bering and Chirikoff.

On the 6th the ships were at Kyak, where Bering had anchored, and amid myriad ducks and gulls were approaching a broad inlet northward.

From its rise at Lake Linderman the Yukon runs twenty-five hundred miles to Bering Sea, traversing an almost unknown region, the remote recesses of which had never felt the moccasined foot of the pathfinder.

They entered above Ambarchik in western Siberia, then turned eastward, collecting valuable intelligence as they passed over key Russian air bases and launch sites on their way toward Anadyr on the Bering Strait.

Laptev Sea, swept over the western Siberian mountain ranges, crossed the Kamchatka peninsula, then whipped down the Bering Sea across the Aleutians into the open ocean.

F-18 went down last night over the Bering Sea, north of the Aleutian Islands, midway between Russia and Alaska.