Conceived by Peter the Great in the 1730s, it was an ambitious 10-year campaign led by Danish mariner Vitus Bering that involved thousands of scientists, surveyors, soldiers and naval officers ...

Back to the Bering Straight Finally, a successful journey to Bird Island. The final scene of the final hour in The Great Human Odyssey was always going to have to be spectacular.

Alaska's Bering Strait may play a critical role in the regulation of the global climate — including a knack for maintaining the Atlantic Ocean "conveyor belt" that bathes northern Europe in eon ...

In June, the sun never sets on the Bering Strait, so there is never a risk of “running out of day”; we loaded the boats and set off for bird island, arriving by evening.