Bering Land Bridge National Preserve

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Bering Land Bridge National Preserve
Tundra at Cottonwood Creek
Tundra at Cottonwood Creek
Bering Land Bridge National Preserve (Alaska)
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Coordinates: 65 ° 59 ′ 44.5 ″  N , 164 ° 16 ′ 3.3 ″  W.
Location: Alaska , United States
Next city: Kotzebue
Surface: 10,922 km²
Founding: December 1, 1978
Visitors: 796 (2007)
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The Bering Land Bridge National Preserve is a nature reserve under the administration of the National Park Service in the north of the Seward Peninsula of Alaska at the transition of the Kotzebue Sound to the Chukchi Sea . Cape Espenberg , the northernmost point of the protected area, lies a few kilometers above the Arctic Circle . The continental watershed , which separates the catchment areas of the Pacific and the Arctic Ocean , runs through the southern part of the preserve.

Cabin near the Serpentine Hot Springs

The remains of Beringia , a land bridge between North America and Asia that existed during the Ice Age of the Pleistocene until about 10,000 years ago , over which the first people from Siberia immigrated to the American continent , are under protection .

The reserve was established as a National Monument on December 1, 1978 . On December 2, 1980, the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act changed its status to that of a National Preserve .

The Bering Land Bridge National Preserve contains several sites of geological and prehistoric importance. The hot springs of Serpentine Hot Springs have been used by the indigenous people of Alaska used. 8,500 year old stone tools have been found in the Trail Creek Caves , a group of twelve caves . The Lost Jim Lava Flow is a lava flow from the Holocene .

There are no roads into the area. In summer it can be reached by plane or ship, in winter also by snowmobiles or dog sleds.

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