The men had visas but the western coast of the Bering Strait is a closed military zone. They were treated well and given a tour of the village's museum, but not permitted to continue south along the Pacific coast. In July 2012, six adventurers associated with "Dangerous Waters", a reality adventure show under production, made the crossing on Sea-Doos but were arrested and permitted to return to Alaska on their Sea-Doos after being briefly detained in Lavrentiya, administrative center of the Chukotsky District. They started from Chukotka Peninsula, the east coast of Russia on February 23 and arrived in Wales, the western coastal town in Alaska on February 29. In February 2012, a Korean team led by Hong Sung-Taek crossed the straits on foot in six days. The specially modified Land Rover Defender 110 was driven by Steve Burgess and Dan Evans across the straits on its second attempt following the interruption of the first by bad weather. Īugust 2008 marked the first crossing of the Bering Strait using an amphibious road-going vehicle. They were soon arrested for not entering Russia through a border control. In March 2006, Briton Karl Bushby and French-American adventurer Dimitri Kieffer crossed the strait on foot, walking across a frozen 90-kilometer (56 mi) section in 15 days. Accompanying the Californians was a film crew in a umiak, a walrus-skin boat traditional to the region they were filming the 1991 documentary Curtain of Ice, directed by John Armstrong. crossing the international dateline) a four-man British expedition, Kayaks Across the Bering Strait and a team of Californians in a three-person biadarka, led by Jim Noyes (who launched his ambitious expedition as a paraplegic). The groups were: seven Alaskans, who called their effort Paddling Into Tomorrow (i.e. In June and July 1989, three independent teams attempted the first modern sea-kayak crossing of the Bering Strait. She was congratulated jointly by American President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
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In 1987, swimmer Lynne Cox swam a 4.3-kilometer (2.7 mi) course between the Diomede Islands from Alaska to the Soviet Union in 3.3 ☌ (37.9 ☏) water during the last years of the Cold War. He was the first documented modern voyager to cross from Russia to North America without the use of a boat. In March 1913, Captain Max Gottschalk (German) crossed from the east cape of Siberia to Shishmaref, Alaska, on dogsled via Little and Big Diomede islands. It was visited in 1778 by the third voyage of James Cook.Īmerican vessels were hunting for bowhead whales in the strait by 1847.
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In 1732, Mikhail Gvozdev crossed it for the first time, from Asia to America. Danish-born Russian navigator Vitus Bering entered it in 1728. In 1648, Semyon Dezhnyov probably passed through the strait, but his report did not reach Europe. Numerous successful crossings without the use of a boat have also been recorded since at least the early 20th century.ĭefense Mapping Agency topographical map of the Bering Strait, 1973įrom at least 1562, European geographers thought that there was a Strait of Anián between Asia and North America. This view of how Paleo-Indians entered America has been the dominant one for several decades and continues to be the most accepted one. The Bering Strait has been the subject of the scientific theory that humans migrated from Asia to North America across a land bridge known as Beringia when lower ocean levels – perhaps a result of glaciers locking up vast amounts of water – exposed a wide stretch of the sea floor, both at the present strait and in the shallow sea north and south of it. The Strait is named after Vitus Bering, a Danish explorer in the service of the Russian Empire.
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The present Russia- United States maritime boundary is at 168° 58' 37" W longitude, slightly south of the Arctic Circle at about 65° 40' N latitude. The Bering Strait ( Russian: Берингов пролив) is a strait between the Pacific and Arctic oceans, separating the Chukchi Peninsula of the Russian Far East from the Seward Peninsula of Alaska.