While in service to Russia in 1741, this Dane died of scurvy on the island that now bears his name
While doing so, the expedition spotted Mount Saint Elias, and sailed 
past ... On 19 December 1741 Vitus Bering died on the island, which was given 
the ..... nor the first Russian to pass through the strait which now bears his name (
an... [DOC] [TLE] Kamchatka: Bering Island - PBS [PAR] Besides harboring millions of tufted puffins, a large population of Russian sea 
otters, ... and had just discovered the coast of Alaska when he and his Russian 
crew ...