Beringia

Proper noun

Beringia

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.
   • Note that, while not in Alaska, one site from the adjacent Yukon Territory has been included as well; it, too, would have been within easter Beringia during the last glaciation.2006, Michael R. Bever, “Too Little, Too Late? The Radiocarbon Chronology of Alaska and the Peopling of the New World”, in American Antiquity
2. All the land between the Lena river in Russia and the Mackenzie river in Canada