Bering, Vitus Jonassen

, –, Danish explorer in Russian employ. In he was selected by Peter I to explore far NE Siberia. Having finally moved men and supplies across Siberia, Bering in sailed N through Bering Strait but sighted no land and did not recognize the importance of the strait. Later in , setting out from Kamchatka, he was driven from his course and discovered the southern route around Kamchatka. He returned to St. Petersburg, arriving in With government support, Bering then oversaw the exploration and mapping of the far reaches of Siberia. Bering himself headed an expedition across the sea to Alaska. In he commanded the while Aleksey Ilich Chirikov (d) commanded the They set out, rounded Kamchatka, founded the town of Petropavlovsk, and then sailed west. The vessels were separated. Bering sighted the St. Elias Mts. in Alaska on July 16, and the scientist Georg Wilhelm Steller led a landing party. Sailing W past the Aleutian Islands, the ship was wrecked on the shore of Bering Island, which they mistook for the coast of Kamchatka. There on Dec. 8 Bering died. The few survivors managed to reach Kamchatka in the summer of

See F. A. Golder, (2 vol., –25); G. F. Muller ()


Vitus Bering Biography

Vitus Bering (), a Dane in Russian employ, led two major exploratory expeditions that significantly expanded knowledge of the northern Pacific region.

Vitus Bering was born in the Danish town of Horsens in the summer of He became a lieutenant in the Russian navy in , and during the Great Northern War he served in both the Black and Baltic seas. In January Peter I asked Bering to command the first Kamchatkan expedition, the aim of which was to determine the extent of the Siberian mainland and its relationship to North America.

Bering led the expedition over 6, miles of wilderness and reached Okhotsk on the Pacific coast on Sept. 30, , nineteen months after leaving St. Petersburg. The group built ships and sailed to the Kamchatka Peninsula. The ship Gabriel was built there, and on July 14, , Bering began his first exploration. The Gabriel sailed northward, rounding East Cape on August Since

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Extract from the first expedition:
The vessel was provisioned (in Kamchatka) with everything needful for forty men for a year.
On the 14th day of July we went out of the mouth of the Kamchatka river into the sea, in
obedience to the autographic orders given me by his Imperial Mejesty Peter the Great,
as the map constructed for that purpose will show.

August 8th, having arrived in north latitude 64°30', eight men rowed to us from the shore in
a skin-boat, enquiring from whence we came and what was our business there. They said
they were Chuikchi, (Whom the Russians of these parts have long known) and as we lay to
they were urged to come to the vessel. They inflated some floats made of sealskin and sent
one man swimming to us to talk, then the boat came up to the vessel and they told us that
on the coast lived many of their nation; that the land not far from there takes a decided turn
to the westward, and they also said that at no great distance from where we were,
we should see an island. This proved true, but we saw nothing valuable upon it except huts.

This island in honor of the day we named ce (see map below), but we were not
able to see any people

Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

AuthorLauridsen, Peter,
Author of introduction, etc.Schwatka, Frederick,
TranslatorOlsen, Julius E.
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Uniform Title Vitus J. Bering og de russiske Opdagelsesrejser fra English
Title Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait
Note Reading ease score: (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read.
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LanguageEnglish
LoC ClassG: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation
Subject Bering, Vitus Jonassen,
Subject Kamchatskaia ekspeditsiia (1st : )
Subject Bering Strait -- Discovery and exploration
Subject Bering Island (Russia) -- Discovery and exploration
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