Portrait traditionally identified as Vitus Jonassen Bering. This identification is questioned, following the discovery in 1991 of Bering's remains and the forensic reconstruction of his facial features. Portrait is possibly Vitus Pedersen Bering,...
Title taken from caption. View of the cross makring Vitus Bering's grave on Bering Island. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to the Aleutian Islands.
Title taken from caption. Dr. Hrdlicka looks on while Lt. Lazerof, a Soviet officer, tries to read the inscription on the cross marking Vitus Bering's grave. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's Archaeological Expedition to...
Title taken from caption. Caption continues: "The small cross was erected many years later and then after this rotted out, the large one." Gravesite of Vitus Bering on Bering Island. Photograph taken during the 1938 Smithsonian Institution's...
Forensic reconstruction of explorer Vitus Bering. Reconstruction by V. N. Zvyagin, Institute of Forensic Medicine, Moscow. 1992-1995? Photographer: Jan Oelker, Dresden.