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U.S. Route 50  America's Loneliest Road | Unusual Places  North America  USA ... The route offers such a compelling cross-section of the nation that Time ... The Nevada portion of the route, named The Loneliest Road in America by ... You find miles and miles of little more than mountains, sand, and blue sky. ... It's believed that US 50 owes its existence to Captain William Bicknell.
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Can you really see Russia from Alaska? - Slate  Sep 15, 2008 ... ... are divided by the Bering Strait, which is about 55 miles at its narrowest point. In the middle of the Bering Strait are two small, sparsely populated ... At their closest, these two islands are a little less than two and a half miles apart, ... Ratmanov Island, as it's known to the Russians) is on the other side of the...
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Northwest Passage - Wikipedia  The Northwest Passage is a sea route connecting the northern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. .... It's a historic event. ... North: From Lancaster Sound straight west through the Parry Channel to the Prince...
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Bering Strait - Wikipedia  The Bering Strait is a strait of the Pacific, which borders with the Arctic to north. It is located ... Its depth varies between 30 metres (98 ft) and 50 metres (160 ft). ... runs equidistant between the Strait's Diomede Islands at a distance of 1.5 km (1 mi), ... A physical link between Asia and North America via the Bering Strait nearly...
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Bering Strait crossing - Wikipedia  North Pole view of the Bering Strait. A Bering Strait crossing is a hypothetical bridge and/or tunnel spanning the relatively narrow .... The depth of the water is little problem, as the strait is no deeper than 55 meters (180 ft). The tides and ..... "Russia Considering Tunnel Between Asia and North America". VOA. 2007-04-19.
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What It Means To Cross the Strait or Straight of Juan De or de ...  Apr 30, 2011 ... --proceed across Juan De Fuca Strait generally westerly to Victoria ... particularly one intent on a fast passage to the Far East from the Seattle area, can go ... less direct) option could be to cross Rosario Strait to Thatcher Pass, run north ... Straight of Juan de Fuca to its east end south of the San Juan Islands.
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FIGURE 3-1 Reprinted with permission from Goode's World ... - Wiley  different things to different people. ... three realms in the Americas: (1) North America, propelled ... Canada's imports came from its southern neighbor. For ... population is dispersed across most of the country, forming ... 200 miles (320 km) of the U.S. border. .... But we now live in the twenty-first century, and the postindustrial.
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The Strategic Importance of the North Pacific Area - JStor  ALTHOUGH it is in the North Pacific area that the continents of. America ... The two continents approach one another most closely at Bering. Strait ... form an arc enclosing the Sea of Japan, on the Russian shore of which is ... The southern ports of Alaska, Skagway, Juneau, .... probably prevent access to Vladivostok by sea.
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Bering Strait - Wikipedia  The Bering Strait is a strait of the Pacific, which borders with the Arctic to north. It is located between Russia and the United States. ... Dezhnev 21 hours ahead of the American side (20 hours during daylight saving time). Population[edit]. The area is sparsely populated. The eastern coast belongs to the U.S. state of Alaska.
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5.5 Bering Strait Region Case Study - Institute of...Bering Strait ...  Island and the United States claiming Little Diomede Island with less than 4 km separating the two ... Vessel traffic in the Bering Strait Region during Summer 2004. This case study ... with the eastern side experiencing fast to intermediate velocities and the deeper western ...... It sits at the north mouth of the. Yukon River, but...
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Geography of Asia - Wikipedia  Geography of Asia reviews geographical concepts of classifying Asia, the central and eastern ... On the north the boundary between the continents of Asia and Europe is commonly regarded as running ... Cape Chelyuskin is at 77 43 N; Cape Piai in the Malay Peninsula is at 1 16 N; Cape Baba in Turkey ..... Singapore.
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Istanbul: Bridge Between Europe and Asia - Spaceknow.com  Aug 26, 2016 ... Istanbul: Bridge Between Europe and Asia ... the $3-billion bridge over the Bosporus Strait will connect European and Asian sides of Istanbul.
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Bering Strait crossing - Wikipedia  A Bering Strait crossing is a hypothetical bridge and/or tunnel spanning the relatively narrow and shallow Bering Strait between the Chukotka Peninsula in Russia and the Seward Peninsula in the U.S. state of Alaska. .... The Russian side, in particular, is severely lacking in infrastructure, without highways for almost 2,000...
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The Geography of the Koreas | Center for Global Education | Asia ...  The Korean peninsula is about 600 miles long, but at its shortest width (near the DMZ), it is only 120 miles from coast to coast. Many South Koreans, especially...
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10 Bridges That Cross International Borders | 10 Most Today  Before you is a list of bridges that span a river or a strait over an international border, .... The Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey  Connects Europe and Asia.
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Northwest Passage - Wikipedia  The Northwest Passage is a sea route connecting the northern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans ..... In a three-year journey between 1903 and 1906, Amundsen explored the .... On July 1, 2000, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police patrol vessel Nadon, .... a channel 160 nautical miles (300 km; 180 mi) long and 15 nautical miles...
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Exploration of North America - Wikipedia  Many expeditions were launched from European nations in search of a Northwest Passage to East Asia (or "the Indies" as the region was called) in order to...
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Mediterranean Sea | Britannica.com  ... Ocean on the west to Asia on the east and separates Europe from Africa. ... the Strait of Gibraltar, which is roughly 8 miles (13 km) wide at its narrowest point;...
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Strait of Juan de Fuca - Wikipedia  The Strait of Juan de Fuca is a large body of water about 95 miles (153 km) long that is the Salish Sea's outlet to the Pacific Ocean. The international boundary between Canada and the United States runs down the center of the Strait. ... It extends east from the Pacific Ocean between Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and...
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Northwest Passage - Wikipedia  The Northwest Passage is a sea route connecting the northern Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. The various islands of the archipelago are separated from one another and ... If, as has been claimed, parts of the eastern end of the Passage are barely...
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PAGE 1 AP Photo / Alexander Zemlianichenko The Russian Arctic ...  The submarines dove beneath 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) of ocean to the Arctic shelf. ... The 1,240-mile (1,996-kilometer) underwater mountain range crosses the polar region ... In December 2001, Moscow claimed that the Lomonosov ridge was an ... If a nation can prove that its part of the continental shelfthe land that lies...