Alaska and the Panama canal . BETWEEN ALASKA AND SIBERIA. 4 ALASKA the earth, as the water in the Bering Straits, the entrance tothe Arctic Ocean, is very deep. The current from Bering Sea runs north into the ArcticOcean, not south out of that ocean, as many think. Therefore,there are never any icebergs in the Bering Sea or North PacificOcean, such as we find in the North Atlantic Ocean. The icepack in Bering Sea must wait for the ice to move with thecurrent northeast in the Arctic Ocean; hence the late openingof Bering Sea, about June loth, each year. The well-knownmining town of Nome, on the
Alaska and the Panama canal . BETWEEN ALASKA AND SIBERIA. 4 ALASKA the earth, as the water in the Bering Straits, the entrance tothe Arctic Ocean, is very deep. The current from Bering Sea runs north into the ArcticOcean, not south out of that ocean, as many think. Therefore,there are never any icebergs in the Bering Sea or North PacificOcean, such as we find in the North Atlantic Ocean. The icepack in Bering Sea must wait for the ice to move with thecurrent northeast in the Arctic Ocean; hence the late openingof Bering Sea, about June loth, each year. The well-knownmining town of Nome, on the upper coast, has only fourmonths of connection with the outside world, from middleJune to middle October. Point Barrow, on the Arctic Ocean,the most northerly place belonging to the United States, is opento navigation for less than sixty days each year, and in someyears hardly at all, if the ice pack does not move out early. Speculation as to the place and manner of mankinds origin. LANDING IN AN OOMIAK, A WALRUS-SKIN BOAT, BERING SEA. ALASKA
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