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  2. Bering Strait crossing - Wikipedia

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    The Bering Strait tunnel was estimated to cost between $10 billion and $12 billion, while the entire project was estimated to cost $65 billion. [ 29 ] In 2008, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin approved the plan to build a railway to the Bering Strait area, as a part of the development plan to run until 2030.

  3. Intercontinental and transoceanic fixed links - Wikipedia

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    First proposed in 1996, [46] the project has since been subject to a number of academic discussions and feasibility studies, including by the China Railway Engineering Corporation. [47] There exist cross strait ferries, both within outlying islands of Taiwan and between the PRC and Taiwan. The political status of Taiwan complicates any such ...

  4. Bering Strait - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Baron Loicq de Lobel - Wikipedia

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    In August 1906, the Czar Nicholas II of Russia issued an order authorising a Franco-American syndicate represented by de Lobel to begin work on the Trans-Siberian Alaska railroad project, involving bridging and tunnelling in the Bering Strait. [4] [5] [6]

  6. Category:Proposed undersea tunnels in Asia - Wikipedia

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    Bering Strait crossing; Bohai Strait tunnel project; G. ... Singapore Strait crossing; T. Taiwan Strait Tunnel Project

  7. Diomede Islands - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. 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]

  9. Tung-Yen Lin - Wikipedia

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    When Lin received the National Medal of Science from President Ronald Reagan in 1986, he handed over a 16-page plan for a 50-mile (80-kilometre) bridge linking Alaska and Siberia across the Bering Strait, a project he dubbed the Intercontinental Peace Bridge.