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  2. Bering Land Bridge National Preserve - Wikipedia

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    Map of Bering Land Bridge National Preserve. The Bering Land Bridge National Preserve is one of the most remote Protected areas of the United States, located on the Seward Peninsula. [3] The National Preserve protects a remnant of the Bering Land Bridge that connected Asia with North America more than 13,000 years ago during the Pleistocene ice ...

  3. Beringia - Wikipedia

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    Beringia sea levels (blues) and land elevations (browns) measured in metres from 21,000 years ago to present. Beringia is defined today as the land and maritime area bounded on the west by the Lena River in Russia; on the east by the Mackenzie River in Canada; on the north by 72° north latitude in the Chukchi Sea; and on the south by the tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula. [1]

  4. Bering Strait - Wikipedia

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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, [1] both at the present strait and in the shallow sea north and ...

  5. Seward Peninsula - Wikipedia

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    The Seward Peninsula is a remnant of the Bering land bridge, a roughly thousand-mile-wide swath of land connecting Siberia with mainland Alaska during the Pleistocene Ice Age. This land bridge aided in the migration of humans, as well as plant and animal species, from Asia to North America.

  6. Beringia National Park - Wikipedia

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    Until 11,000 BCE, the territory of the park was connected by a land bridge – known as "Beringia" – to North America.On the eastern side, in Alaska, is the Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, operated by the US National Park Service.

  7. Bering Strait crossing - Wikipedia

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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.

  8. Trail Creek Caves - Wikipedia

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    The Trail Creek Caves are a group of twelve caves found within the Bering Land Bridge National Preserve on the Seward Peninsula of the U.S. state of Alaska. This is a significant archeological site due to the discovery of several artifacts of ancient hunters. These included stone tools and bone fragments dated to 8,500 years or earlier.

  9. Shishmaref, Alaska - Wikipedia

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    Shishmaref is served by the Bering Strait School District. Shishmaref School is the only school in town and serves grades Pre-K through 12 with a population of 183 students and 33 pre-school children. [23] There are 19 teachers at Shishmaref School and is the largest and newest building in settlement.