The Bering land bridge connecting Siberia and Alaska is estimated to have been approximately 600 miles wide.
Sources
- Books: Beyond Clovis - Archaeology Magazine Archive (archive.archaeology.org)
- https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/anthropology/beringia-land-bridge (ebsco.com)
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/first-americans-lived-on-bering-land-bridge-for-thousands-of-years/ (scientificamerican.com)
- https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine-archive/node/1407 (colorado.edu)
- https://theecologist.org/2014/mar/07/first-americans-lived-beringia-thousands-years (theecologist.org)
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