bering strait

     

Coorinates: 66°0′N, 169°0′W

Trivia about bering strait

  • The Diomede Islands, one belonging to Russia, the other to Alaska, lie in this strait
  • Between Alaska & Russia
  • Similar artifacts found in Siberia & off Alaska indicate that a land bridge once existed across this strait
  • The U.S.-Russian boundary passes through this strait
  • Though Russian Semyon Dezhnev was the first European to sail through this strait, it's named for a Dane
  • It's less than 55 miles from North America to Asia when you cross this strait
  • The shortest way to sail to the Arctic Ocean from Nome, Alaska is to go north through this strait
  • During the Ice Age, the sea fell & this strait became a land bridge between Asia & North America
  • Bison may have reached America during the Pleistocene epoch via a land bridge across what's now this strait
  • About 20,000 years ago, hunters crossed what's now this strait to become North American Indians
  • At only 2 1/2 miles away, Little Diomede Island in this strait is the closest part of North America to Asia
  • This strait separates the fourth-largest nation of the world from the largest
  • It separates the continents of Asia & North America at their closest point
  • It's only about 50 miles from Alaska to Russia when you cross this strait

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