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Crossing The Bering Bridge Meant Finding A Path Through Swampy Ground
T he land bridge across the Bering Strait that lasted through much of the last Ice Age was likely very different from what has been imagined. Instead of a mix of grassland, tundra, and ice sheet ...
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New Study Finds Bering Land Bridge Was Really More of a Swamp
In short, the Bering Land Bridge was more of a Bering Land ... 1,000km would have stretched from Asia to North America across what is now the Bering Strait. Today, some islands — St. Lawrence ...
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Joseph Strauss
an outlandish proposal to construct an international railroad spanning the Bering Strait between Alaska and Russia. Alfred K. Nippert, Strauss' fraternity brother, recalled, "Before a crowded ...
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A PROPOSED RAILWAY UNDER BERING STRAIT.; Line Across Alaska Connecting with Siberian Road Planned -- Secretary Hitchcock's Approval Asked.
A Trans-Alaska-Siberian Railway Company has been organized, and a petition has been forwarded to Secretary Hitchcock for his approval of the route across ... under Bering Strait to connect with ...