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    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...
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    The Bering Strait (Russian: Берингов пролив, romanized: Beringov proliv) is a strait between the Pacific and Arctic oceans, separating the Chukchi Peninsula...
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    Beringia (redirect from Bering Land Bridge)
    tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula. It includes the Chukchi Sea, the Bering Sea, the Bering Strait, the Chukchi and Kamchatka Peninsulas in Russia as well as...
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  • river begins at Vitus Lake, which takes in meltwater from mouth of the Bering Glacier, and flows southwest to the Gulf of Alaska. List of rivers of Alaska...
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    coast on the North American continent. The Bering Strait, the Bering Sea, Bering Island, the Bering Glacier, and Vitus Lake were all named in his honor...
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    Mendenhall Glacier (in Tlingit language “Sít”) is a glacier about 13.6 miles (21.9 km) long located in Mendenhall Valley, about 12 miles (19 km) from downtown...
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  • geodetic method. Runoff from Bering Glacier (derived from simulated ablation and rain) correlates with four of the glacier surges that have occurred since...
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    Bagley Icefield (category Glaciers of Chugach Census Area, Alaska)
    recognize that the huge glacier now named Bagley Icefield actually forms the upper reaches of the distant and similarly vast Bering Glacier, which had been named...
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    The Bering Land Bridge National Preserve is one of the most remote Protected areas of the United States, located on the Seward Peninsula. The National...
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    Barnard Glacier Bear Glacier - Aialik Peninsula, Resurrection Bay Bering Glacier Black Rapids Brady Glacier Brooks Glacier - Alaska Range Buckskin Glacier -...
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    hydrological divide of the Americas. The Continental Divide extends from the Bering Strait to the Strait of Magellan, and separates the watersheds that drain...
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    Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve is an national park of the United States located in Southeast Alaska west of Juneau. President Calvin Coolidge...
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    a number of tidewater glaciers. Alaska's largest glaciers, the Malaspina Glacier and Bering Glacier, spill out onto the coastal line along the Gulf of...
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    was adopted after the retreat of Guyot Glacier resulted in a separate branch. List of glaciers "USGS Bering Glacier B-2 (AK) Topo Map". Topozone. Retrieved...
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    Slims River, north to Kluane Lake, and ultimately to the Bering Sea. In 2016, as the glacier receded, the predominant flow abruptly switched to the Kaskawulsh...
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    including humans, to occupy Beringia (the Bering Land Bridge) and move between North America and Siberia. As the glaciers retreated, glacial lakes were breached...
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    -2 °C, and the coldest month is January, at -20 °C. List of glaciers "USGS Bering Glacier C-5 (AK) Topo Map". Topozone. Retrieved 2007-01-24. "NASA Earth...
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    Behavior of the Bering Glacier-Bagley Icefield System During a Surge". European Space Agency. Retrieved 2010-06-14. "Nabesna Glacier (Wrangell-St. Elias...
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    determine the balance of the Bering and Hubbard Glaciers and is also validated for the Gulkana, a USGS benchmark glacier. Global warming portal Ecology...
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    They can be transported by glaciers, and are thereby one of a series of indicators which mark the path of prehistoric glacier movement. Their lithographic...
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    Tracy Arm (redirect from Sawyer Glacier)
    "State of deep coral ecosystems in the Alaska Region: Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea and the Aleutian Islands" (PDF). In: Lumsden SE et al., eds. The State...
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    form of glacier ice, covers some 16,000 square miles (41,000 km2) of land and 1,200 square miles (3,100 km2) of tidal zone. The Bering Glacier complex...
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    the expedition commanded by Vitus Bering, a Danish-born Russian explorer. While some historians contend that Bering named the mountain, others believe...
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  • Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition "PBS story of Bering's expedition". Pbs.org. Retrieved 2011-12-14. "Bering, Vitus" (in Russian). Retrieved 2011-12-24. Essays...
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    Islands (St. George Island, St. Paul Island, Otter Island, Walrus Island) Bering Sea Wilderness (St. Matthew Island, Hall Island, Pinnacle Island) – 81,340...
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    camissonis), that occurs on either side of the Bering Strait, in Siberia and in Alaska "Alaskan glacier buttercup" (PDF). Alaska Natural Heritage Program...
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    with the 1741 Russian expedition of Vitus Bering and Aleksei Chirikov. La Perouse (after whom one of the glaciers in the bay was named subsequently) established...
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    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 Earth...
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    following August, and after being frozen in at the end of September near the Bering Strait, completed the voyage successfully in the following summer. He edited...
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    include what was then Glacier Bay National Monument, portions of the Wrangell and Chugach Mountains, and Malaspina and Bering Glaciers. In 1964, George B...
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