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The capital, Petropavlovsk, founded in 1740 by Danish explorer Vitus Bering--for whom the Bering Sea and Strait are named--is a morass of Soviet-style apartment blocks and potholed streets, incongruously framed by a mist-swathed harbor and snowcapped volcanoes. Its few hotels and restaurants are drab. Yet we...
Business and political leaders in the U.S., Canada and Russia are mulling a plan to build a railroad tunnel beneath the Bering Strait. A rail link, they say, could carry 30 billion tons of cargo a year and cut shipping time from Los Angeles to Vladivostok as much as two...
STELLER's SEA LION Weight: 272 kg to 900+ kg From: Pacific Ocean, Bering Sea Secret Weapon: Finny feet
--STELLER's SEA LION Weight: 600 lbs. to 2,000+ lbs. From: Pacific Ocean, Bering Sea Secret Weapon: Finny feet
For now, few scientists are willing to go so far. "I think people did have the capacity to sail across the Atlantic," says Adovasio, "but I still think 99.9% of the peopling of the Americas occurred through the interior or along the coast from the Bering Sea." Still, he leaves...