Bering Straight Tunnel

bering strait bridge project

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Discovery Channel has a great piece on this engineering marvel which is still in conceptual phase.

The Bering Strait bridge or Bering Strait tunnel, if ever constructed, would be a bridge or tunnel spanning the Bering Strait between Cape Dezhnev, Chukotka, Russia, and Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, United States.

Another name suggested is Eurasia-America Transport Link. Whatever the name, the construction of such a bridge or tunnel would face unprecedented engineering, political, and financial challenges, and to date, no government has authorized the start of any planning or construction.

Nor it would any time soon given how busy US is in political/military activities around the world with economy and business taking a heavy toll right now.

What ever the state of union, just the idea of such a tunnel is akin to dreaming about landing on the moon.

North of the arctic Circle

Kangerlussuaq near the Arctic Circle

Imagining the North The uncharted North fired the imagination of Europeans and North Americans in the 19th and early 20th century. Many believed in a warm open ocean existed, on the other side of a ring of ice. John B Sheldon of Hillville, New Jersey believed that the pole was made out of diamond. But the idea of a perpetually frozen landscape was alien to farming peoples in the warm and fertile south. Few people, in Russia or the West could conceive of a life among the sophisticated hunter gatherers who had lived in the Arctic for millennia. Credit: Face to Face Media

Norilsk, originally build by slave labour, is the largest of the mining and smelting cities built above the Arctic Circle. With a population of more than 250,000, the it was a model city in the Soviet plan. But the smelters emit a million tons of sulphur a year, polluting the Arctic and damaging the tundra. The cost of maintaining the northern cities has proven prohibitive and more than a million residents are expected to leave. Photo credit: AMAP (Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program)