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Sighting of Alaska

Denmark · Exploration / Exploration and Discovery. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1741

Vitus Jonassen Bering17 July 1741

Alaska · Exploration / Exploration and Discovery

Lookouts aboard Bering’s St Peter sighted snow-covered mountains on the North American coast.

Names involved

Vitus Jonassen Bering

Provenance

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