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“VITUS BERING”
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Vitus Bering
Vitus Jonassen Bering
(also, less correctly, Behring)
(August 1681–December 19,
1741) was a Danish-born
navigator in the service of the
Russian Navy, a captainkomandor known among the
Russian sailors as Ivan
Ivanovich. He was born in
the town of Horsens in
Denmark and died at Bering
Island, near the Kamchatka
Peninsula.
Map of Siberia and Russian Far
East made by Vitus Bering
The larger island in the west is
Bering Island, the smaller island is
Medny.
Bering Island
Serving in the Baltic Fleet
After a voyage to the East
Indies, he joined the fleet of
the Russian Navy as a
sublieutenant in 1703, serving
in the Baltic Fleet during the
Great Northern War. In 1710–
1712 he served in the Azov
Sea Fleet in Taganrog and
took part in the Russo-Turkish
War. He engaged to a
Russian woman, and in 1715
he made a brief visit to his
hometown, never to see it
again.
ALASKA
Explorations of the northern coast
of Asia
A series of explorations of the
northern coast of Asia, the
outcome of a long-reaching plan
devised by Peter the Great, led
up to Bering's first voyage to
Kamchatka. In 1725, under the
auspices of the Russian
government, he went overland to
Okhotsk, crossed to Kamchatka,
and established the ship Sviatoi
Gavriil (St. Gabriel). Aboard the
ship, Bering pushed northward in
1728, until he could no longer
observe any extension of the
land to the north, or its
appearance to the east.
Vitus-bering-parken
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
In the following year he made
an abortive search for
mainland eastward,
rediscovering one of the
Diomede Islands (Ratmanov
Island) observed earlier by
Dezhnev. In the summer of
1730, Bering returned to St.
Petersburg. During the long
trip through Siberia along the
whole Asian continent, he
became very ill. Five of his
children died during this trip.
Petropavlovsk
In 1740 he established
the settlement of
Petropavlovsk in
Kamchatka. From there,
he led an expedition
towards North America
in 1741.
THE VALUE OF BERING’S WORK
The value of Bering's
work was not fully
recognized for many
years, but Captain Cook
was able to prove
Bering's accuracy as an
observer. Nowadays, the
Bering Strait, the Bering
Sea, Bering Island,
Bering Glacier and the
Bering Land Bridge bear
the explorer's name.
References
Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition
Frost, Orcutt. Bering: The Russian Discovery of America. New
Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003 (hardcover, ISBN
0300100590).
Lauridsen, P. Bering og de Russiske Opdagelsesrejser
(Copenhagen, 1885)
Müller, G.F. Sammlung russischer Geschichten, vol. iii. (St
Petersburg, 1758)
Oliver, James A. The Bering Strait Crossing. UK: Information
Architects, 2006 (hardcover ISBN 0954699572, paperback ISBN
0954699564)
Under Vitus Bering's Command: New Perspectives on the Russian
Kamchatka Expeditions (Beringiana, 1), edited by Natasha
Okhotina Lind and Peter Ulf Møller. Aarhus: Aarhus University
Press, 2002 (paperback, ISBN 87-7288-932-2).
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