5 Pyadey Bering Vitus Jonassen

Vitus Jonassen Bering, the Danish-born navigator who served the Russian Imperial Navy, died in December 1741 shipwrecked on the uninhabited island that now bears his name — stranded during the return leg of the Second Kamchatka Expedition after successfully sighting the Alaskan coast. His remains were recovered and identified by forensic archaeologists only in 1991.