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What does Beringia mean?

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Proper noun
  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. All the land between the Lena river in Russia and the Mackenzie river in Canada
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Minister Cannon delivers opening remarks at a reception for Canada's Arctic Council Advisory Committee at the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre.
Brown bears migrated to eastern Beringia from Asia probably in the early Wisconsinan Glaciation.
The project is operated by Craighead Beringia South with support from Felidae.
In the afternoon, city-tour and visit of the Beringia Museum and the SS-Klondike.
It is believed that the last ice age forced some llama ancestors to move into South America while some migrated north across Beringia to Asia.
Several groups from Asia migrated across Beringia to enter and populate North America.

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