Bering Strait

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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, both at the present strait and in the shallow sea north and south of it.

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MODIS

northernmost point of

Pacific Ocean

OpenStreetMap

https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/11315299

path on GitHub

https://github.com/davepinch/pinchy.cc/blob/master/content/topics/places/straits/bering-strait/bering-strait.md

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Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11769

Wikipedia

Bering Strait (Wikipedia) 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.