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.

References

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• G. F. Müller, Sammlung russischer Geschichten, vol. iii. (St Petersburg, 1758)
• P. Lauridsen, Bering og de Russiske Opdagelsesrejser (Copenhagen, 1885)