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| The Bering Strait Crossing : USA, RUSSIA |
North America and Asia
are no more two separate continents. They are getting connected with a bridge
over ocean at the shortest possible strait, The Bering Strait. A documentary
video on the proposals and construction of this by discovery channel gives a
crystal idea on what is gonna happen at north pole, how the two continents are
getting connected each other. One should watch what really a bridge means when
it comes to this much lengthier construction and prestigious project. However a
beholder may dream about making this type of bridge all over the ocean and make
the entire world a single continent.
Now let’s see what
Wikipedia has to say about this:
The Bering Strait (Russian:
Берингов пролив, Beringov proliv, Yupik: Imakpik) is a strait 82 kms wide between Cape Dezhnev, Chukchi Peninsula,
Russia, the easternmost point of the
Asian continent and Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, USA, the westernmost point of
the North American continent. The Strait has been the subject of scientific
speculation that humans migrated from Asia to North America across a land
bridge known as Bernicia when lower ocean levels--perhaps a result of glaciers
locking up vast amounts of water--exposed a ridge beneath the ocean. A Bering Strait crossing is a hypothetical bridge or tunnel spanning the relatively narrow and
shallow Bering Strait. With the two Diomede Islands between the peninsulas, the Bering
Strait could be spanned by three bridges. Two long bridges (each almost 40 kms)
would connect the mainland on each side to one island, and a third much shorter
one between the two islands. However, the construction of a Bering Strait
crossing would face exceptional political, engineering, and financial
hurdles….read more
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