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Beringia

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Be·rin·gi·a  (b-rnj-)
A region extending from western Siberia into North America that includes the Bering land bridge.


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The scientific facts were all there, of the land bridge Beringia, now one hundred meters under the Bering Strait, which some twenty thousand years ago was open, wide and dry, for mammoths and people to cross from one continent to the other.
The second migration originated in Asia and bypassed Siberia before crossing Beringia (as the land bridge Between Asia and Alaska is called in the literature).
And while in Whitehorse, don't miss the Beringia Museum, where Ice Age science springs to life.
 
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