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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.


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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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

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

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

We were on a small island drifting toward the Bering Sea.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

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