Karaginsky Island (Russian: Карагинский остров) is an island of Russia in the Karaginsky Gulf of the Bering Sea near the eastern shores of Kamchatka. It is part of Koryak Autonomous Okrug 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. ... Kamchatka Oblast, an oblast in Russia. ... Koryak Autonomous Okrug (Russian: ), or Koryakia, is a federal subject of Russia (an autonomous okrug of Kamchatka Oblast). ...
The area of the island is 2,000 km². The highest peak of the island is 912 m. Karaginsky Island is covered with tundra vegetation and cedar underwood. In physical geography, tundra is an area where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons. ... Species Cedrus deodara Cedrus libani var. ...
Karaginsky Island is a Ramsar site. The Ramsar Convention is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands, i. ...
During the spring-early autumn period, major prey items in Karaginski Bay and the Gulf of Anadyr include Arctic cod, sand lance, sculpins, flatfishes, cephalapods (mainly octopus), and a variety of shrimps.
By March-April they are concentrated mainly in the ice front at or near the southern ice margin in a band that extends from Bristol Bay in the east to Karaginski Bay in the west.
Centers of abundance are in western Bristol Bay, near the Pribilof Islands, and in the eastern Anadyr to Karaginski Bay region.
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