While in service to Russia in 1741, this Dane died of scurvy on the island that now bears his name
..... Behring, a Dane by birth, but in the Russian service, died here in 1741, upon 
the... [DOC] [TLE] Vitus Bering - Topics [PAR] Vitus Jonassen Bering (baptised 5 August 1681, died 19 December 1741), also 
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