Bering Strait
|
|
The Bering Strait is a sea strait between Cape Dezhnev, the eastmost point of the Asian continent and Cape Prince of Wales, the westernmost point of the American continent, about 85 km in width, with a depth of 30–50 m. The strait connects the Chukchi Sea (part of the Arctic Ocean) in the north with the Bering Sea (part of the Pacific Ocean) in the south. It is named for Vitus Bering, a Danish-born Russian explorer who crossed the strait in 1728.
The Diomede Islands lie directly in the middle of the Bering Strait.
Suggestions have been made for the construction of a bridge spanning the Bering Strait between Alaska and Siberia, dubbed by some the Intercontinental Peace Bridge, and, alternatively, for a connecting tunnel underneath the strait.
During the ice ages, the area of the strait was a land bridge known as the Bering land bridge.
Bering Strait is also a country music band made up of musicians from Russia that mixes country music with traditional Russian song making, a music sometimes called "redgrass" (a reference to bluegrass). [1] (http://www.beringstraitonline.com/)ar:مضيق برينغ af:Beringstraat bg:Берингов проток da:Beringstrædet de:Beringstraße et:Beringi väin eo:Beringa Markolo fr:Détroit de Béring gl:Estreito de Bering it:Stretto di Bering he:מצר ברינג hu:Bering-szoros nl:Beringstraat ja:ベーリング海峡 nb:Beringstredet nn:Beringsundet pl:Cieśnina Beringa pt:Estreito de Bering ru:Берингов пролив sk:Beringov prieliv zh:白令海峡