Beringia
Also known as Bering Isthmus
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Beringia was a vast land bridge that connected present-day Russia and Alaska during periods when ocean levels were lower, particularly around 21,000 years ago. It matters because it likely served as the route through which the first people migrated from Asia into North America during the last Ice Age.
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9 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Refugium
- Beringian Gap
- Human habitation and migration
- Previous connections
- See also
- References
- Further reading
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Beringia is a prehistoric geographical region, defined as the land and maritime area bounded on the west by the Lena River in Russia; on the east by the Mackenzie River in Canada; on the north by 72° north latitude in the Chukchi Sea; and on the south by the tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula. It includes the Chukchi Sea, the Bering Sea, the Bering Strait, the Chukchi and Kamchatka peninsulas in Russia as well as Alaska in the United States and Yukon in Canada.