Presentation VITUS BERING created by Lodinev Sergey, School 1173, Form 8e

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PresentationVITUS BERING created byLodinev
Sergey, School 1173, Form 8e

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Vitus Bering

• Vitus Jonassen Bering (also, less correctly,
  Behring) (August 1681December 19, 1741) was a
  Danish-born navigator in the service of the
  Russian Navy, a captain-komandor 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.

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Map of Siberia and Russian Far East made by
Vitus Bering
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The larger island in the west is Bering Island,
the smaller island is Medny.
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Bering Island
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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 17101712 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

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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.

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Vitus-bering-parken
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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.

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Petropavlovsk

• In 1740 he established the settlement of
  Petropavlovsk in Kamchatka. From there, he led an
  expedition towards North America in 1741.

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THE VALUE OF BERINGS 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.

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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).
• Retrieved from "http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitus
  _Bering"