Vitus Bering: The Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

Vitus Bering: The Discoverer of Bering Strait

Peter Lauridsen with Julius E. Olson (Translator)

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Vitus Bering (1681 1741) was a Danish-born Russian navigator. He enlisted in the Russian navy and fought during the Great Northern War (1700 21) against the Swedish Empire. In 1725 he received a commission from Peter the Great to discover whether ...

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