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1,454 words, approx. 5 pages
Vitus Bering's Explorations of the Far Northern Pacific Overview On voyages in 1728 and again from 1733 until 1741, Vitus Bering (1681-1741) explored the northernmost reaches of the Pacific Oce... Read more
662 words, approx. 3 pages
Vitus Jonassen Bering 1681-1741 Danish Explorer One of the most celebrated endeavors of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century exploration was the search for the Northwest Passage, a route between Europe... Read more
1,114 words, approx. 4 pages
Vitus Bering Born August 12, 1681, Horsens, Denmark Died December 8, 1741, Bering Island. Russia In 1725 Russian czar Peter the Great commissioned Danish navigator Vitus Bering to explore Siberia&rs... Read more