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Headlands and islands of the Bering Strait as seen from a point 25 miles (40 km) south of the Diomede Islands. Cape Dezhnev on the far left. Cape Dezhnyov or Cape Dezhnev ( Russian : мыс Дежнёва ; Eskimo–Aleut : Tugnehalha ; Inupiaq : Nuuġaq ), [ 1 ] formerly known as East Cape or Cape Vostochny , is a cape that forms the ...
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 ...
On 14 July, Bering's party began their first exploration, hugging the coast in not a northerly direction (as they had expected) but a north-easterly one. [7] Sailing further north, Bering entered for the first time the strait that would later bear his name. [7] On 8 August, the expedition had a first meeting with the indigenous population.
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.
Big Diomede Island or Tomorrow Island (Russian: Остров Ратманова, romanized: ostrov Ratmanova; Ratmanov Island, Chukot: Имэлин; Inupiaq: Imaqłiq) is the western island of the two Diomede Islands in the middle of the Bering Strait. The island is home to a Russian military base which is located midway along the island's ...
It covers over 2,000,000 square kilometers (770,000 sq mi) and is bordered on the east and northeast by Alaska, on the west by the Russian Far East and the Kamchatka Peninsula, on the south by the Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands and on the far north by the Bering Strait, which connects the Bering Sea to the Arctic Ocean's Chukchi Sea. [7]
Bering Strait (1 C, 20 P) K. Kerch Strait (22 P) Pages in category "Straits of Russia" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
On his world map the easternmost part of Russia is not displayed left of Alaska, as it is usually done. Instead, it is on the right with the rest of Russia. The antipode of Peters' corrected date line is the meridian, 11° 15' East of Greenwich, traversing the city center of Florence in Italy.