Beringia

发音

US /bəˈɹɪnd͡ʒiə/

释义与例句

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  1. 1.

    The Bering land bridge, a geographical phenomenon roughly 1,000 miles (1,600 km) wide (north to south) at its greatest extent, which joined present-day Alaska and eastern Siberia at various times during the Pleistocene ice ages; the land bridge previously occupying what is now the Bering Strait.

  2. 2.

    All the land between the Lena river in Russia and the Mackenzie river in Canada

词源

From Bering + -ia, coined by the Swedish botanist Eric Hultén in 1937.

来源：wiktionary