Unsung Dane was the first to brave icy North Pacific.(BOOKS)

From: The Washington Times (Washington, DC) | Date: December 28, 2003 | Copyright information

Byline: Duncan Spencer, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Columbus is credited with the discovery of America, though we know that English and French fishermen had visited the shores, and possibly Vikings before them. But history has been kind to Columbus: not so to Vitus Jonassen Bering.

The man whose name lives on in the narrow, icy strait between Asia and Alaskan America was the real discoverer of the North Pacific. That is to say, it was Bering in his great second Kamchatka Expedition of 1733 to 1743 who defined the northern Pacific in its vastness, and outlined for the ...

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