Beringia

English Etymology From en Bering -ia place, coined by the Swedish botanist Eric Hultén in 1937. Pronunciation en /bəˈɹɪnd͡ʒiə/ US Proper noun The Bering land bridge, a geographical phenomenon roughly 1,000 miles (1,600 km) wide (north to south) at its greatest extent, which joined present-day Alaska and eastern Siberia at various times during the Pleistocene ice ages; the land bridge previously occupying what is now the Bering Strait. en 2006 Michael R. Bever Too Little, Too Late? The Radiocarbon Chronology of Alaska and the Peopling of the New World American Antiquity Note that, while not in Alaska, one site from the adjacent Yukon Territory has been included as well; it, too, would have been within easter Beringia during the last glaciation. All the land between the Lena river in Russia and the Mackenzie river in Canada Derived terms en Beringian Related terms en Beringland Translations Catalan: ca Beríngia f French: fr Béringie f German: de Beringia f Korean: ko 베링 육교 Polish: pl Beringia f Russian: ru Берингия f