While in service to Russia in 1741, this Dane died of scurvy on the island that now bears his name
He is known as a leader of 
two Russian expeditions, namely the First ... On 19 December 1741 Vitus Bering 
died on the island, which was given the... [DOC] [TLE] our phantom ship among - Rhode Island College [PAR] Ice floats about us now, and here is a whale blowing, a whale, too, very near 
Spitzbergen.