Vitus Bering
Vitus Bering (1681-1741), sea navigator, officer of the Russian Navy, naval commodore, leader of the first (1725-30) and second (1733-43) Kamchatka expeditions, who reached the shores of North America and discovered several of the Aleutian Islands, and the strait between Asia and America. His name was given to the sea in the north of the Pacific Ocean, the island and strait between the Chukchi Peninsula and Alaska.
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