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Vitus Bering

1681 - 1741

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Vitus Jonassen Bering (Danish: [ˈviːtsʰus ˈjoːnæsn̩ ˈpe̝(ː)ɐ̯e̝ŋ]; baptised 5 August 1681 – 19 December 1741), also known as Ivan Ivanovich Bering (Russian: Иван Иванович Беринг), was a Danish-born Russian cartographer and explorer, and an officer in the Russian Navy. He is known as a leader of two Russian expeditions, namely the First Kamchatka Expedition and the Great Northern Expedition, exploring the north-eastern coast of the Asian continent and from there the western coast on the North American continent. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vitus Bering has received more than 703,699 page views. His biography is available in 83 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 80 in 2019). Vitus Bering is the 24th most popular explorer, the 13th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 8th in 2019) and the most popular Danish Explorer.

Vitus Bering was a Danish explorer who discovered Alaska.

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  • 77.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 83

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.13

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Vitus Bering ranks 24 out of 498. Before him are Fridtjof Nansen, Juan Sebastián Elcano, Jacques Cartier, David Livingstone, Jacques Cousteau, and Erik the Red. After him are Leif Erikson, Willem Barentsz, Thor Heyerdahl, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Martin Behaim, and Jan van Riebeeck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1681, Vitus Bering ranks 1. After him are Georg Philipp Telemann, Hedvig Sophia of Sweden, Johann Mattheson, Theophan Prokopovich, Giulia Lama, Ernest Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, and Henrietta Godolphin, 2nd Duchess of Marlborough. Among people deceased in 1741, Vitus Bering ranks 2. Before him is Antonio Vivaldi. After him are Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden, Pauline Félicité de Mailly-Nesle, Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Johann Joseph Fux, Wirich Philipp von Daun, Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine, Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg, Bernard de Montfaucon, and Victor Amadeus I, Prince of Carignano.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Vitus Bering ranks 13 out of 1,032. Before him are Ivar the Boneless (900), Cnut the Great (995), Asta Nielsen (1881), Frederick IX of Denmark (1899), Björn Ironside (800), and Karen Blixen (1885). After him are Gorm the Old (900), Christian VII of Denmark (1749), Margaret I of Denmark (1353), George I of Greece (1845), Ole Rømer (1644), and Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857).

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Among EXPLORERS In Denmark

Among explorers born in Denmark, Vitus Bering ranks 1. After him are Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel (1784), Peter Freuchen (1886), Lauge Koch (1892), Jørgen Jørgensen (1780), and Frans Blom (1893).

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