Bering

American  

[beer-ing, ber-, bair-, bey-ring] / ˈbɪər ɪŋ, ˈbɛr-, ˈbɛər-, ˈbeɪ rɪŋ /

noun

1. Vitus 1680–1741, Danish navigator: explorer of the N Pacific.

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Bering British  

/ ˈbeːreŋ, ˈbɛrɪŋ, ˈbɛər- /

noun

1. Vitus (ˈviːtʊs). 1681–1741, Danish navigator, who explored the N Pacific for the Russians and discovered Bering Island and the Bering Strait

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Bering

A 15-year-old boy has been rescued after spending days sitting atop a boat that had capsized in the frigid waters of Alaska's Bering Sea.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

The "Dubai Tower" left the eastern port city of Ningbo on Saturday evening heading north, where it will pass through the Bering Strait, then turn west through the frigid waters along Russia's northern coast.

From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026

There’s only so much warmth in the Bering Sea.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026

He called it “the most tragic day in the history of the Aleutian Lady on the Bering Sea.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026

Until then, the sole contacts between human societies of the Old and the New Worlds had involved the hunter-gatherers on opposite sides of the Bering Strait.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond