Crossword clues for bering
bering
- Explorer Vitus
- Straight separatingRussia andAlaska
- Navigator Vitus
- Explorer who lent his name to a strait off Alaska
- Explorer Vitus with a sea and strait named after him
- Danish navigator (1860–1741)
- Alaskan strait
- ___ Strait (separator of Russia and Alaska)
- Water between Russia and Alaska
- Swimming bears in eg water off Alaska
- ___ Strait (Russia-Alaska separator)
- Danish explorer who explored the North Pacific Ocean for the Russians and discovered the Bering Strait (1681-1741)
- Sea off Alaska
- Strait or sea
- Vitus ___, Danish navigator
- Danish explorer and cartographer
- Sea or strait near 19 Down
- U.S.S.R. and U.S.A. share this expanse
- Strait near the Arctic Circle
- Peter the Great's explorer
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
strait and sea between Alaska and Siberia, named for Danish explorer Vitus Bering (1681-1741), who worked for Peter the Great and led the first European expedition to sight Alaska, in 1741.
Wikipedia
Bering may refer to:
- Bering Glacier, a glacier in the U.S. state of Alaska
- Bering (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse
- Bering Island, located off the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Bering Sea
- Bering land bridge, a former land bridge that joined present-day Alaska and eastern Siberia during the Pleistocene ice ages
- Bering Sea, a body of water in the North Pacific Ocean
- Bering Strait, a sea strait between Russia and Alaska
- Bering Truck, a former United States manufacturer and distributor of trucks
- Vitus Bering (1681–1741), a Danish-born navigator in the service of the Russian Navy
- Bering, East Sikkim, A small village in East Sikkim, India
Bering (20 March 1983 – 16 December 2011) was a British- bred, French- trained Thoroughbred racehorse. He won five of his seven starts, including the Prix du Jockey Club in 1986. On his final start he finished second to Dancing Brave in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. He was bred and owned by Alec Head, and trained by his daughter Criquette Head. After retiring from racing Bering had some success as a stallion, with his progeny including 2000 Guineas Stakes winner Pennekamp and Poule d'Essai des Poulains winner American Post.
Usage examples of "bering".
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.