Presentation “VITUS BERING” created by Lodinev Sergey, School 1173, Form 8e

1. Presentation“VITUS BERING” created byLodinev Sergey, School 1173, Form 8e Guidance - S.A. Markova, School 1173, English Language Teacher DEDICATED TO HEROES OF ARCTIC

2. Vitus Bering • Vitus Jonassen Bering (also, less correctly, Behring) (August 1681–December 19, 1741) was a Danish-born navigator in the service of the Russian Navy, a captain-komandor known among the Russian sailors as Ivan Ivanovich. He was born in the town of Horsens in Denmark and died at Bering Island, near the Kamchatka Peninsula.

3. Map of Siberia and Russian Far East made by Vitus Bering

4. The larger island in the west is Bering Island, the smaller island is Medny.

5. Bering Island

6. After a voyage to the East Indies, he joined the fleet of the Russian Navy as a sublieutenant in 1703, serving in the BalticFleet during theGreat Northern War. In 1710–1712 he served in the Azov Sea Fleet in Taganrog and took part in the Russo-Turkish War. He engaged to a Russian woman, and in 1715 he made a brief visit to his hometown, never to see it again. ALASKA Serving in the BalticFleet

7. A series of explorations of the northern coast of Asia, the outcome of a long-reaching plan devised by Peter the Great, led up to Bering's first voyage to Kamchatka. In 1725, under the auspices of the Russian government, he went overland to Okhotsk, crossed to Kamchatka, and established the ship Sviatoi Gavriil (St. Gabriel). Aboard the ship, Bering pushed northward in 1728, until he could no longer observe any extension of the land to the north, or its appearance to the east. Explorations of the northern coast of Asia

8. Vitus-bering-parken

9. In the following year he made an abortive search for mainland eastward, rediscovering one of the Diomede Islands (Ratmanov Island) observed earlier by Dezhnev. In the summer of 1730, Bering returned to St. Petersburg. During the long trip through Siberia along the whole Asian continent, he became very ill. Five of his children died during this trip. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky

10. In 1740 he established the settlement of Petropavlovsk in Kamchatka. From there, he led an expedition towards North America in 1741. Petropavlovsk

11. The value of Bering's work was not fully recognized for many years, but Captain Cook was able to prove Bering's accuracy as an observer. Nowadays, the Bering Strait, the Bering Sea, Bering Island, Bering Glacier and the Bering Land Bridge bear the explorer's name. THE VALUE OF BERING’S WORK

12. References • Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition • Frost, Orcutt. Bering: The Russian Discovery of America. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003 (hardcover, ISBN 0300100590). • Lauridsen, P. Bering og de Russiske Opdagelsesrejser (Copenhagen, 1885) • Müller, G.F. Sammlung russischer Geschichten, vol. iii. (St Petersburg, 1758) • Oliver, James A. The Bering Strait Crossing. UK: Information Architects, 2006 (hardcover ISBN 0954699572, paperback ISBN 0954699564) • Under Vitus Bering's Command: New Perspectives on the Russian Kamchatka Expeditions (Beringiana, 1), edited by Natasha Okhotina Lind and Peter Ulf Møller. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2002 (paperback, ISBN 87-7288-932-2). • Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitus_Bering"