File:Clear Skies Over Bering Land Bridge National Preserve (NESDIS 2019-06-14).jpg
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English: Clear skies over Alaska allowed NOAA-20 to capture this stunning view of the Bering Land Bridge National Preserve on June 13, 2019. This 2.7 million-acre preserve, located on the Seward Peninsula in northwest Alaska, is one of the most remote national parks in the United States. The preserve was established by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act on Dec. 2, 1980, to protect the land bridge, also known as Beringia, according to the National Park Service (NPS). While the majority of the land bridge now lies beneath the Bering and Chukchi Seas, some 10,000 years ago it served as a migration route between East Asia and North America. Back then, people often “followed herds of large mammals (many of them now extinct) to hunt for food and shelter, all the while expanding their civilization and possibly unknowingly populating a new world,” NPS notes. Today, only a few parts of the central land bridge, including the Diomede Islands, the Pribilof Islands of St. Paul and St. George, St. Lawrence Island, and King Island remain visible. |
Date | 14 June 2019 (upload date) |
Source | Clear Skies Over Bering Land Bridge National Preserve |
Author | NOAA |
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File change date and time | 10:54, 14 June 2019 |
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Date metadata was last modified | 06:54, 14 June 2019 |
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