Foul weather forced their return, and the St. Peter’s crew remained stranded. Vitus Bering died and was buried on Bering Island. In 1991, when his body was exhumed, experts found that scurvy did ...

Peter the Great commissioned Vitus Bering, a Dane who had served the Russian Navy well in its wars against Sweden, to lead an exploration of the eastern Arctic. On Peter’s orders, Bering and his ...