Beringia

专有名词
中文释义
美 /bəˈɹɪnd͡ʒiə/

英文释义

专有名词
  1. The Bering land bridge, a geographical phenomenon roughly 1,000 miles (1,600 km) wide (north to south) at its greatest extent, which joined present-day Alaska and eastern Siberia at various times during the Pleistocene ice ages; the land bridge previously occupying what is now the Bering Strait.
    — Note that, while not in Alaska, one site from the adjacent Yukon Territory has been included as well; it, too, would have been within easter Beringia during the last glaciation.
  2. All the land between the Lena river in Russia and the Mackenzie river in Canada

词汇关系

衍生词
Beringian
相关词
Beringland

词源

From Bering + -ia, coined by the Swedish botanist Eric Hultén in 1937.
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