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It uses material from the Wikipedia article Vitus Bering. Vitus Bering Biography. Vitus Jonassen Bering also, less correctly, Behring August, - December 19, was a Danish-born navigator in the service of Russia, captain-komandor of the Russian Navy known among the Russian sailors as Ivan Ivanovich. Bering was born in the town of Horsens.

He married a Russian woman, and in he made a brief visit to his hometown, never to see it again. A series of explorations of the north coast of Asia, the outcome of a far-reaching plan devised by Peter the Great, led up to Bering's first voyage to Kamchatka. In , under the auspices of the Russian government, he went overland to Okhotsk, crossed to Kamchatka, and built the ship Sviatoi Gavriil St.

In her he pushed northward in , until he could no longer observe any extension of the land to the north, or its appearance to the east. In the following year he made an abortive search for mainland eastward rediscovering one of the Diomede Islands Ratmanov Island observed earlier by Dezhnev.

—FOUNDING OF THE RUSSIAN NAVY.

In summer of Bering returned to St. During the long trip through Siberia along the whole Asian continent he became very ill. Five of his children died during this trip. Bering was subsequently commissioned to a further expedition, and returned to Okhotsk in