Bering Straits

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Bering Straits

  1. Alternative form of Bering Strait
    • 1898, Harry de Windt, Through the Gold-Fields of Alaska to Bering Straits[1], London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 76:
      Lake Le Barge was named after Mike Le Barge, an employé of the Western Union Telegraph Company, who was employed in constructing the overland telegraph line from America to Europe (via Bering Straits) in 1867. The completion of the Atlantic Cable in 1866 put an-end to this project.
    • 2022 February 26, John Walton, “How the Ukraine conflict could redraw the world air map”, in CNN[2], archived from the original on 26 February 2022:
      During the frostiest days of the Cold War, avoiding the Soviet Bloc meant flying north around Greenland to Alaska, refueling in Anchorage, and then around the Bering Straits to reach Japan.

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