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North Pole view of the Bering Strait. A 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.
When Lin received the National Medal of Science from President Ronald Reagan in 1986, he handed over a 16-page plan for a 50-mile (80-kilometre) bridge linking Alaska and Siberia across the Bering Strait, a project he dubbed the Intercontinental Peace Bridge.
Satellite image of Bering Strait. Cape Dezhnev, Russia, is on the left, the two Diomede Islands are in the middle, and Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, is on the right. The Bering Strait is about 82 kilometers (51 mi) wide at its narrowest point, between Cape Dezhnev, Chukchi Peninsula, Russia, the easternmost point (169° 39' W) of the Asian continent and Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, United ...
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The islands were once mountain tops in the central portion of the land mass known as the Bering land bridge. [7] The first European to reach the Bering Strait was the Russian explorer Semyon Dezhnev in 1648. He reported two islands whose natives had bone lip ornaments, but it is not certain that these were the Diomedes.
Crossed the Atlantic Arctic Circle in Foxe Basin: 2016.08.25-0544 hrs. Transit Labrador Narrows in Fury & Hecla Strait: 2016.08.26-1758 hrs. Crossed Bellot Narrows west: 2016.09.03 Crossed Pt. Barrow Alaska west in 4-6/10 sea ice: 2016.09.20-1700 hrs. Crossed the Pacific Arctic Circle in Bering Strait: 2016.09.23-1804 hrs.
In March 2006, Bushby and French adventurer Dimitri Kieffer crossed the Bering Strait on foot, having to take a roundabout 14-day route across a frozen 150-mile (240 km) section to cross the 58-mile (93 km) wide strait from Alaska to Siberia. [1]
Icy Strait Point feels like an authentic Alaskan experience. There's plenty of whale watching near Icy Strait Point. Ken Edmonds. Near the town of Hoonah, Icy Strait Point is a private port owned ...