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Bering Straits
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Bering strait s 1
en Bering Strait.
en 1898 w:Harry de Windt Through the Gold-Fields of Alaska to Bering Straits https://archive.org/details/throughgoldfield00dewi/ London w:Chatto & Windus 869170351 76 https://archive.org/details/throughgoldfield00dewi/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.
en 26 February 2022 John Walton How the Ukraine conflict could redraw the world air map https://web.archive.org/web/20220226100430/https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/ukraine-conflict-world-air-map/index.html/ 26 February 2022 w:CNN 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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