[DOC] [TLE] Semyon Dezhnev - Wikipedia [PAR] Semyon Ivanovich Dezhnev was a Russian explorer of Siberia and the first 
European to sail through the Bering Strait, 80 years before Vitus ... 2 A Discovery 
and its re-discovery. 2.1 Doubts about Dezhnyov's route .... are named after 
Dezhnyov. Both the Soviet Union and Russia have named icebreakers after 
Dezhnyov. [DOC] [TLE] Vitus Bering - Wikipedia [PAR] Vitus Jonassen Bering (baptised 5 August 1681, died 19 December 1741), also 
known as Ivan Ivanovich Bering, was a Danish cartographer and explorer in 
Russian service, and an officer in the Russian Navy. He is known as a leader of 
two Russian expeditions, namely the First ... The Bering Strait, the Bering Sea, 
Bering Island, the Bering Glacier and the... [DOC] [TLE] Jeopary Questions page 1513 - HARVARD UNIVERSITY - Trivia Bistro [PAR] EXPLORERS: Though Russian Semyon Dezhnev was the first European to sail 
through this strait, it's named for a Dane  CELEBRITY MARRIAGES: Elizabeth... [DOC] [TLE] Semyon Dezhnyov  Russiapedia Geography and exploration ... [PAR] Semyon Deznyov was the Russian explorer who discovered the Bering Strait. ... 
just 53 miles (85 kilometers) wide at its narrowest point, that separates the Asian 
and ... But Bering was not the first European to pass through the Bering Strait. ... 
Dezhnyov and his men had become the first Westerners to sail through the 
narrow... [DOC] [TLE] The Russian Great Northern Expedition, 1733-1743 - The Mariners ... [PAR] In 1737, Bering reached Okhotsk and began building two ships he named ... The 
expedition began by sailing southeast toward what they called, Gama Land. ... 
Strait, Early Expeditions to the Region of Bering Sea and Strait: From the Reports 
and ... even though an earlier Russian explorer named Semyon Dezhnev 
actually... [DOC] [TLE] Flat Earth/8.1: The Arctic Off-Premises | The Engineering of the ... [PAR] It is named after Danish explorer Vitus Bering (1681  1741), an officer in the ... 
The strait probably took its name from Ania, a Chinese province mentioned in a 
1559 ... In 1648 the Russian explorer Semyon Dezhnyov sailed southward 
through ... a Russian explorer of Siberia and the first European to sail through the 
Bering... [DOC] [TLE] BCS321 Module 5 - UArctic Members - University of the Arctic [PAR] North, its land, its inhabitants, its dangers, or its opportunities. ... In this first period
, southern populations in what is now Europe (Swedes, Danes, ... Semyon 
Dezhnev sails through the Bering Strait. .... Strait becoming the first Europeans to 
sail between Asia and America (Ibid). .... explorer named Georgy Yakovlevich 
Sedov. [DOC] [TLE] History of Sleddogs | Hetta Huskies - Dog Sledding Finland ... [PAR] The race, though, soon changed their minds; with Goosak's team (led by ... The 
first written accounts of Europeans reaching Alaska came from Russia come from 
the Russian explorer Semyon Dezhnev, who was blown off course and carried to 
Alaska while sailing from the mouth of the Kolyma River through the Arctic Ocean
... [DOC] [TLE] Russian America - Dictionnaires [PAR] The earliest written accounts indicate that the first Europeans to reach Alaska 
came from Russia. In 1648 Semyon Dezhnev sailed from the mouth of the 
Kolyma River through ... the Dane Vitus Bering and the Sv. Pavel under the 
Russian Alexei Chirikov ... Though the colony was never very profitable, because 
of the costs of... [DOC] [TLE] OOLAC - #Bering_Sea [PAR] Except for its headwaters in the mountains, the river is broad and flat for its entire 
.... In 1648 Semyon Dezhnev reached the mouth of the Anadyr after being ..... The 
Bering Sea is named for Vitus Bering, a Danish navigator in Russian .... and the 
first European to sail through the Bering Strait, 80 years before Vitus Bering did. [DOC] [TLE] Check and uncheck as needed to select sections to print. Then ... [PAR] The concept of world exploration is used in a European context: from the eastern 
... They also are thought to have made a 3-year voyage around Africa about 600 
B.C. .... Semyon I. Dezhnev went in 1648 from the Arctic coast of Siberia to

Question: Though Russian Semyon Dezhnev was the first European to sail through this strait, it's named for a Dane
Answer: Bering Strait