See also: Bering

The Bering Strait , or strait of Behring , separates from 64 km the Eastern Siberia (the course Dejnev) of the Alaska (the course of the Check cloth) and connects the Bering Sea (left septentrional the Pacific Ocean) to the Arctic Ocean.

It owes its name to the navigator Vitus Bering (1681 - 1741), a Russian explorer born with the Denmark which crossed the strait in 1728.

Both islands Diomède are located about in its center, on both sides of the border between the Russia and the the United States

During the last era refrigerator, the sea level was sufficiently low to allow the passage foot between Asia and North America with the site of the current Bering Strait. This way would have been borrowed by the first men having populated the American continent. 20.000 years ago, of the Siberian tribes crossed the strait to go to populate America. Located at the same latitude as the Iceland, the zone of the strait is characterized by extremely low temperatures and strong winds.

Tunnel under the Bering Strait

See also: Tunnel under the Bering Strait

See too

• Anian
• Béringie

Zh-classical: 白令海峽