Vitus Bering, Danish-born Russian explorer (died 1741)

Vitus Bering

Danish-born Russian explorer (1681–1741)

Vitus Jonassen Bering, also known as Ivan Ivanovich Bering, was a Danish-born Russian cartographer and explorer, and an officer in the Russian Navy. He is known as a leader of two Russian expeditions, namely the First Kamchatka Expedition and the Great Northern Expedition,…