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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Bering Strait

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

In fact, there are two small islands in the middle of the Bering Strait, where you could potentially walk from the United States to Russia in midwinter.

From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2026

Mike Brown and his crew aboard the Hampton transited through the Bering Strait.

From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2024

A new analysis of lice genetic diversity suggests that lice came to the Americas twice -- once during the first wave of human migration across the Bering Strait, and again during European colonization.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2023

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