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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.


Bering Strait British  

noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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 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

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

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