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BEHRING'S ISLAND

Volume 4 · 42 words · 1860 Edition

the most westerly of the Aleutian group, in the North Pacific. Lat. 55° 22' N. Long. 166° E. It is rocky, desolate, and uninhabited, and is only remarkable as being the place where the navigator Behring was wrecked, and died in 1741.