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Why is there no bridge between Alaska and Russia? looking at how close they are the idea of building a bridge seems pretty obvious. More than eleven thousand years ago, Asia and North America were actually connected by a landmass called Beringia. But Beringia was eventually swallowed up by rising sea levels, severing the connection between the two continents. These floods created the Bering Strait, a shallow, narrow strait of water that now separates Alaska from Russia. Geographically, the Bering Strait is only fifty one miles wide, with two islands in the middle. So, why hasn’t the bridge been built yet? The answer lies in its geography. The extreme remoteness of the surroundings and the harsh Arctic climate— with its extreme cold and long, dark winters—would limit construction to only a few months a year. On the Alaskan side, the nearest highway to Fairbanks is five hundred and twenty miles, while the nearest highway in Russia is twelve hundred miles. Connecting the bridge’s infrastructure to the existing road and rail network would be extremely costly, an estimated one hundred and five billion dollars.
