Russia's Far East Shipping Company (FESCO) and the National Center for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR) of the Ministry of Earth Sciences of India have extended the contract for supplying India’s ...
Danish architects CF Møller have completed a centre for entrepreneurs in Horsens, Denmark, where a green fibre-cement staircase spirals round the central atrium. Called Vitus Bering Innovation Park, ...
THE AMERICAN EXPEDITION (236 pp.)—Sven Waxell—Macmillan ($3). Where lie the farthest limits of northern Asia? Peter the Great did not know, and he wanted to. So, in 1725, Czar Peter sent a Dane named ...
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Many history books say that Vitus Bering “discovered” Alaska in 1741. Of course, that disregards the inconvenient fact that there were already thousands of indigenous peoples populating the territory ...
JUNEAU, Alaska - A Russian doctor has presented an Alaska park with a bust of Danish explorer Vitus Bering, whose name has become part of Alaskan history and geography. Dr. Viktor Zviagin, an expert ...
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Joe Queenan on a 400-year journey into the creation of the United States. Show more In 1867 the United States of America purchased Alaska from Russia. The history of Russian involvement on the ...
I don't give a damn if I never see any more scenery. My story begins in Dutch Harbor/Unalaska, the logistic gateway to the Bering Sea. I first came to Dutch Harbor 27 years ago, to join a research ...
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