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Bering Expedition Landing Site

Kayak Island
Alaska

Kayak island
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According to the U.S. National Park Service, this is where the first attempts at contact between Europeans and Alaskan natives were made by naturalist Georg W. Steller, surgeon aboard Vitus Bering's St. Peter.

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