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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.
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 ...
Both Vitus Bering (in 1728) and James Cook (in 1778) entered the Bering Strait from the south and sailed some distance northwest, but from 1648 (Semyon Dezhnev) to 1879 (Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld) no one is recorded as having sailed eastward between the Kolyma and Bering Strait. Map drawn in 1601 by Theodore de Bry to describe the ill-fated ...
There are proposals to link Johor (in Malaysia) and Riau (in Indonesia), in a Malacca Strait Bridge or underwater tunnel crossing Strait of Malacca and some islands. The longest connection is a 17.5 kilometer. The total length is between 39 and 40 kilometers.
Map including St. Lawrence Island. The United States Census Bureau defines St. Lawrence Island as Block Group 6, Census Tract 1 of Nome Census Area, Alaska. As of the 2000 census there were 1,292 people living on a land area of 1,791.56 sq mi (4,640.1 km 2). [6] The island is about 90 mi (140 km) long and 8–22 mi (13–35 km) wide.
Strait of Messina Bridge (Italy) Bridge of the Horns (Djibouti–Yemen) Bering Strait bridge (Russia–United States) Sakhalin bridge (Russia) Sunda Strait Bridge ; Irish Sea Bridge (Great Britain–Ireland) [1] Qatar Bahrain Causeway bridge (Qatar–Bahrain) Palk Strait Bridge (Sri Lanka–India)
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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]