Satellite photo of the Bering Sea

Bering Sea and the North Pacific Ocean

Bearing Sea with Kamchatka Peninsula and Alaska

The Bering (or Imarpik) Sea is a body of water north of, and separated from, the north Pacific Ocean by the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands. Covering over two million square kilometers (775,000 sq. miles), it is bordered on the east and northeast by Alaska, on the west by Russia's Siberia and Kamchatka Peninsula, on the south by the Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands and on the far north by the Bering Strait which separates the Bering Sea from the Arctic Ocean's Chukchi Sea. It is named for the first European discoverer to sail its waters, the Danish navigator Vitus Bering. Image File history File links BeringSea. ... Image File history File links BeringSea. ... Image File history File links Bering_Sea_Location. ... Image File history File links Bering_Sea_Location. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (960x516, 110 KB) Map of en:Bering Sea. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (960x516, 110 KB) Map of en:Bering Sea. ... Volcanoes on the Alaska Peninsula The Alaska Peninsula is a peninsula extending about 800 km (500 miles) to the southwest from the mainland of Alaska and ending in the Aleutian Islands. ... Looking down the Aleutians from an airplane. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Official language(s) English Capital Juneau Largest city Anchorage Area  Ranked 1st  - Total 663,267 sq mi (1,717,854 km²)  - Width 808 miles (1,300 km)  - Length 1,479 miles (2,380 km)  - % water 13. ... Siberian Federal District (dark red) and the broadest definition of Siberia (red) Udachnaya pipe Siberia (Russian: , Sibir; Tatar: ) is a vast region of Russia constituting almost all of Northern Asia. ... Kamchatka is the land of volcanoes. ... Volcanoes on the Alaska Peninsula The Alaska Peninsula is a peninsula extending about 800 km (500 miles) to the southwest from the mainland of Alaska and ending in the Aleutian Islands. ... Looking down the Aleutians from an airplane. ... Satellite photo of the Bering Strait Nautical chart of the Bering Strait The Bering Strait fags is a sea strait between Cape Dezhnev, Russia, the easternmost point (169°43 W) of the Asian continent and Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, the westernmost point (168°05 W) of the American continent... Chukchi Sea (Russian: Чуко́тское мо́ре) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, between Chukotka and Alaska. ... Vitus Bering Vitus Jonassen Bering (also, less correctly, Behring) (August 1681–December 19, 1741) was a Danish-born navigator in the service of the Russian Navy, a captain-komandor known among the Russian sailors as Ivan Ivanovich. ...

During the most recent ice age, the sea level was thought to be low enough to allow humans and other animals to migrate from Asia to North America on foot across what is now the Bering Strait, located on the northern side of the sea. This is commonly referred to as the "Bering land bridge" and is believed by some scholars (in dispute by others) to be the first entry of humans into the Americas. Variations in CO2, temperature and dust from the Vostok ice core over the last 400 000 years For the animated movie, see Ice Age (movie). ... For considerations of sea level change, in particular rise associated with possible global warming, see sea level rise. ... Trinomial name Homo sapiens sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 Humans, or human beings, are bipedal primates belonging to the mammalian species Homo sapiens (Latin for wise man or knowing man) under the family Hominidae (known as the great apes). ... This article is about non-human migration. ... World map showing the location of Asia. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ... Satellite photo of the Bering Strait Nautical chart of the Bering Strait The Bering Strait fags is a sea strait between Cape Dezhnev, Russia, the easternmost point (169°43 W) of the Asian continent and Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, the westernmost point (168°05 W) of the American continent... Nautical chart of Bering Strait, site of former land bridge between Asia and North America The Bering land bridge, also known as Beringia, was a land bridge roughly 1600 km (1000 miles) north to south at its greatest extent, which joined present-day Alaska and eastern Siberia at various times... World map showing the Americas The Americas are the lands of the Western hemisphere historically considered to consist of the continents of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions. ...

The Bering Sea is one of the world's richest fisheries, and landings from Alaskan waters represents half the U.S. catch of fish and shellfish. Because of the changes going on in the Arctic, future evolution of the Bering Sea climate/ecosystem is more uncertain. This is a symmetric problem: climate change impacts ecosystems, and ecosystems serve as indicators for climate change. Track the current State of the Bering Sea with [1]near-realtime ecological and climatic indicators.

Islands of the Bering Sea include:

• Pribilof Islands
• Komandorski Islands, including Bering Island
• St. Lawrence Island
• Diomede Islands
• King Island
• St. Matthew Island
• Karaginskiy

The Pribilof Islands (often called the Fur Seal Islands, Russian: Kotovi) are a group of four volcanic islands, part of Alaska, lying in the Bering Sea, about 200 miles north of Unalaska and 200 miles south of Cape Newenham, the nearest point on the North American mainland. ... The Komandorski Islands or Commander Islands (Russian: ) are a group of treeless islands east of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East, in the Bering Sea. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... St. ... Satellite photo of the Bering Strait, with the Diomede Islands at center. ... King Island is an island in the Bering Sea, west of Alaska at 64°58N, 168°05W. It is about 64 km (40 miles) west of Cape Douglas and is south of Wales, Alaska. ... St. ...

See also

• Bering Sea Arbitration
• Bristol Bay
• Alaska Peninsula
• Timeline of environmental events

Bering Sea Arbitration, The important fishery dispute between Great Britain and the United States, which was closed by this arbitration, arose in the following circumstances. ... Shore of Bristol Bay near Naknek. ... Volcanoes on the Alaska Peninsula The Alaska Peninsula is a peninsula extending about 800 km (500 miles) to the southwest from the mainland of Alaska and ending in the Aleutian Islands. ... The timeline of environmental events is a historical account of events that have shaped humanitys perspective on the environment. ...

External links

• Bering Sea Climate and Ecosystem Comprehensive resource on the physical and biological factors affecting life in the Bering Sea, with maps, photos, essays on key Bering Sea issues, organizations, ecosystem information, and viewable data with narratives on trends and ecosystem relevance.
• North Pacific Ocean theme page