As a result of ice masses enlargement and lowering
of the World Ocean level the territory between Chukotka and Kamchatka became free of
water. In place of the Beringov strait the huge band of dry land was formed, its
width reached 2 000 kms. The scientists named this territory Beringia.
At the stretch of the Ice Age Beringia was the original bridge by which the plants,
animals and Humans moved to the Northern America from Asia. This bridge disappeared under
water about 10 thousand years ago when the glaciers thew. |
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