Vitus Jonassen Bering (Danish: [ˈviːtsʰus ˈjoːnæsn̩ ˈpe̝(ː)ɐ̯e̝ŋ]; baptised 5 August 1681 – 19 December 1741), also known as Ivan Ivanovich Bering (Russian:...
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Vitus Bering (1681–1741) was a Danish explorer. Vitus Bering may also refer to: Vitus Bering (1617–1675), Danish poet, historian and Supreme Court justice...
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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...
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explorer Vitus Bering (1681–1741). Vitus Pedersen Bering was born in Viborg, Denmark. Bering was the son of the city mayor Peder Pedersen Bering and Maren...
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the shallower water above the continental shelves. The Bering Sea is named after Vitus Bering, a Danish navigator in Russian service, who, in 1728, was...
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martyr Vitus Amerbach (1503–1557), German theologian, scholar and humanist Vitus Ashaba (1943–1985), Ugandan middle-distance runner Vitus Bering (1617–1675)...
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Vitus Bering (Russian: Витус Беринг) is a Russian icebreaking platform supply and standby vessel owned by Sovcomflot. Built by Arctech Helsinki Shipyard...
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Bering Glacier is a glacier in the U.S. state of Alaska. It currently terminates in Vitus Lake south of Alaska's Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, about...
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Look up Bering or bering in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bering may refer to: Vitus Bering (1681–1741), Danish-born navigator in the service of the...
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Anna and Elizabeth. The main organiser and leader of the expedition was Vitus Bering, who earlier had been commissioned by Peter I to lead the First Kamchatka...
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Vitus Lake is a lake in Alaska. It is 23 kilometres (14 mi) long and 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) wide. It is named for Vitus Bering, leader of the 1741 expedition...
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Steller first encountered it on Vitus Bering's Great Northern Expedition when the crew became shipwrecked on Bering Island. Much of what is known about...
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the Pacific Ocean. In 1725, Emperor Peter the Great ordered navigator Vitus Bering to explore the North Pacific for potential colonization. The Russians...
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Institution of Higher Education "Kamchatka State University named after Vitus Bering" (Russian: Федеральное государственное бюджетное образовательное учреждение...
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Beringia (redirect from Bering Land Bridge)
by the Swedish botanist Eric Hultén in 1937, from the Danish explorer Vitus Bering. During the ice ages, Beringia, like most of Siberia and all of North...
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Diomede Islands (category Islands of the Bering Sea)
The islands are named for the Greek Saint Diomedes; Danish navigator Vitus Bering sighted the Diomede Islands on 16 August (O.S., 27 August N.S.) 1728...
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1741 Commander Vitus Bering, sailing in Svyatoy Pyotr (St. Peter) for the Russian Navy, was shipwrecked and died of scurvy on Bering Island, along with...
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Semyon Dezhnev (category Bering Strait)
of Siberia and the first European to sail through the Bering Strait, 80 years before Vitus Bering did. In 1648 he sailed from the Kolyma River on the Arctic...
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November 14, 1748) was a Russian navigator and captain who, along with Vitus Bering, was the first Russian to reach the northwest coast of North America...
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Bering is a surname. Notable people with the name surname include: Vitus Bering (1681–1741), Danish navigator and cartographer, namesake of the Bering...
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VIA University College (redirect from University College Vitus Bering)
the newly built 8,000 m2 Vitus Bering Innovation Park, named after the famous Horsens resident and Arctic explorer Vitus Bering (1681 - 1741). The VBI Park...
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Cape Prince of Wales (category Landforms of the Bering Sea)
Gvozdev in Sviatoi Gavriil (St. Gabriel); later, the cape was named by Vitus Bering for Gvozdev as Mys Gvozdeva (Cape Gvozdev). The Yupik name of the cape...
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After the First Kamchatka expedition of Vitus Bering, Russian exploration efforts were continued by Bering's lieutenant Martin Spanberg and the navigator...
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Vitus Bering. Afield from 1725 to 1731, it was Russia's first naval scientific expedition. It confirmed the presence of a strait (now known as Bering...
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after Georg Wilhelm Steller, a naturalist from Germany who traveled with Vitus Bering on an exploratory voyage to Alaska. For the first nine years of its existence...
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workers. Peter Sørensen from the Social Democrats is mayor of Horsens. Vitus Bering, the famous Russian Navy captain, was born here. The largest educational...
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explorer Vitus Bering left Nezhe-Kamchatsk for his first voyage in 1728 and, as part of his second voyage, founded Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in 1740. Vitus Bering's...
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Saint Elias, which in turn was named in 1741 by the Danish explorer Vitus Bering. The St. Elias Mountains form the highest coastal mountain range on Earth...
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directed by Yuri Shvyryov [ru]. The film tells the story of Danish explorer Vitus Bering, who, by decree of Peter the Great in 1725, led the First Kamchatka expedition...
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Little Diomede Island (category Bering Strait)
are named after Saint Diomedes. Danish-Russian navigator Vitus Bering (after whom the Bering Strait is named) sighted the Diomede Islands on August 16...
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