Bering Strait

American  

noun

1. a strait between Alaska and the Russian Federation in Asia, connecting the Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean. 36 miles (58 km) wide.

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Bering Strait British  

noun

1. a strait between Alaska and Russia, connecting the Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean

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Example Sentences

Dmitriev said a memorandum of understanding would be signed to look at a tentative project to build a tunnel under the Bering Strait between Alaska and Russia’s largely deserted Far East.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Significant groupings appear beneath the Himalayas in southern Asia and near the Bering Strait between Asia and North America, south of the Arctic Circle.

From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2026

In 2008, when a global financial crisis delayed plans to push through Siberia after crossing the Bering Strait two years earlier, he returned to Mexico and made it his temporary home.

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2026

Researchers believe the very earliest horse ancestors arose in North America, then sauntered across the Bering Strait into Asia around a million years ago.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 6, 2024

For much of the last century archaeologists believed that Indians came to the Americas through the Bering Strait about thirteen thousand years ago at the tail end of the last Ice Age.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann