Meaning of Place Name: Behring or Bering Strait, Alaska
Behring or Bering Strait, Alaska: Named by Captain Cook, in memory of Ivan Ivanviteh or Vite' Behring (who wrote it Bering or Bereng; Behring, a German corruption), a Russian navigator, its discoverer, in 1728. On some "olde mappes" (1566) the waters are noted as "Stret de Anian."
