Vitus Jonassen Bering (Danish: [ˈviːtsʰus ˈjoːnæsn̩ ˈpe̝(ː)ɐ̯e̝ŋ]; baptised 5 August 1681 – 19 December 1741), also known as Ivan Ivanovich Bering (Russian:...

Vitus Bering (1681–1741) was a Danish-born Russian explorer. Vitus Bering may also refer to: Vitus Bering (1617–1675), Danish poet, historian and Supreme...

65° 40' N latitude. The Strait is named after Vitus Bering, a Danish-born Russian explorer. The Bering Strait has been the subject of the scientific theory...

the shallower water above the continental shelves. The Bering Sea is named after Vitus Bering, a Danish-born Russian navigator, who, in 1728, was the...

explorer Vitus Bering (1681–1741). Vitus Pedersen Bering was born in Viborg, Denmark. Bering was the son of the city mayor Peder Pedersen Bering and Maren...

Look up Bering or bering in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bering may refer to: Vitus Bering (1681–1741), Danish-born Russian explorer and navigator...

martyr Vitus Amerbach (1503–1557), German theologian, scholar and humanist Vitus Ashaba (1943–1985), Ugandan middle-distance runner Vitus Bering (1617–1675)...

Vitus Bering (Russian: Витус Беринг) is a Russian icebreaking platform supply and standby vessel owned by Sovcomflot. Built by Arctech Helsinki Shipyard...

Bering Glacier is a glacier in the U.S. state of Alaska. It currently terminates in Vitus Lake south of Alaska's Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, about...

Anna and Elizabeth. The main organiser and leader of the expedition was Vitus Bering, who earlier had been commissioned by Peter I to lead the First Kamchatka...

Vitus Lake is a lake in Alaska. It is 23 kilometres (14 mi) long and 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) wide. It is named for Vitus Bering, leader of the 1741 expedition...

the Pacific Ocean. In 1725, Emperor Peter the Great ordered navigator Vitus Bering to explore the North Pacific for potential colonization. The Russians...

botanist Eric Hultén in 1937, from the Danish-born Russian explorer Vitus Bering. During the ice ages, Beringia, like most of Siberia and all of North...

November 14, 1748) was a Russian navigator and captain who, along with Vitus Bering, was the first Russian to reach the northwest coast of North America...

of Siberia and the first European to sail through the Bering Strait, 80 years before Vitus Bering did. In 1648 he sailed from the Kolyma River on the Arctic...

1741 Commander Vitus Bering, sailing in Svyatoy Pyotr (St. Peter) for the Russian Navy, was shipwrecked and died of scurvy on Bering Island, along with...

Steller first encountered it on Vitus Bering's Great Northern Expedition when the crew became shipwrecked on Bering Island. Much of what is known about...

Bering is a surname. Notable people with the name surname include: Vitus Bering (1681–1741), Danish-born Russian navigator and cartographer, namesake...

After the First Kamchatka expedition of Vitus Bering, Russian exploration efforts were continued by Bering's lieutenant Martin Spanberg and the navigator...

are named for the Greek Saint Diomedes; Danish-born Russian navigator Vitus Bering sighted the Diomede Islands on 16 August (O.S., 27 August N.S.) 1728...

after Georg Wilhelm Steller, a naturalist from Germany who traveled with Vitus Bering on an exploratory voyage to Alaska. For the first nine years of its existence...

location of the commemorative Bering Expedition Landing Site. Vitus Bering himself never went ashore. On July 20, 1741, the Bering Expedition's German naturalist...

the newly built 8,000 m2 Vitus Bering Innovation Park, named after the famous Horsens resident and Arctic explorer Vitus Bering (1681 - 1741). The VBI Park...

Vitus Bering. Afield from 1725 to 1731, it was Russia's first naval scientific expedition. It confirmed the presence of a strait (now known as Bering...

explorer Vitus Bering left Nezhe-Kamchatsk for his first voyage in 1728 and, as part of his second voyage, founded Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in 1740. Vitus Bering's...

Gvozdev in Sviatoi Gavriil (St. Gabriel); later, the cape was named by Vitus Bering for Gvozdev as Mys Gvozdeva (Cape Gvozdev). The Yupik name of the cape...

publishes Historia Muscorum, a significant work on cryptogams. May – Vitus Bering sets out from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to map the coasts of Siberia and...

Danish-born Russian naval officer who took part with his compatriot Vitus Bering in both Kamchatka expeditions as second in command. He is best known...

which in turn was named in 1741 by the Danish-born Russian explorer Vitus Bering. The Saint Elias Mountains form the highest coastal mountain range on...

Christina of Lorraine, Grand Duchess consort of Tuscany (b. 1565) 1741 – Vitus Bering, Danish-born Russian explorer (b. 1681) 1745 – Jean-Baptiste van Loo...