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Bristol Bay is the portion of the Bering Sea between the Alaska Peninsula and Cape Newenham on mainland Southwest Alaska. The Bering Sea ecosystem includes resources within the jurisdiction of the United States and Russia, as well as international waters in the middle of the sea (known as the "Donut Hole" [8]). The interaction between currents ...
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Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait is a 2019 book by Brown University historian Bathsheba Demuth, published by W. W. Norton & Company. [1] The book examines environmental and social change in the Beringia region surrounding the Bering Strait from the mid-nineteenth to the late-twentieth centuries, focusing on the pursuits of American and Russian interests and their ...
Bering Sea aerial view, showing Zhemchug Canyon in the center. Zhemchug Canyon (from the Russian жемчуг, "pearl") is an underwater canyon located in the Bering Sea between the Siberian and Alaskan coastlines. It is the deepest submarine canyon in the world with a vertical relief of 8,530 feet (2,600 meters) and a length of 99 miles (160 ...
California's geography is largely defined by its central feature—the Central Valley, a huge, fertile valley between the coastal mountain ranges and the Sierra Nevada. The northern part of the Central Valley is called the Sacramento Valley , after its main river, and the southern part is called the San Joaquin Valley / ˌ s æ n w ɑː ˈ k ...
Bering Sea features. Bowers Ridge is in the southern part of the Bering Sea. The Bowers Ridge is located in the southern part of the Aleutian Basin.It extends over 900 km (560 mi) in an arc, starting in the southeast at the Aleutian Arc and terminating to the northwest at the Shirshov Ridge.
The Eastern limits of the Philippine Sea [P 1] and Japan Sea [P 2] and the Southeastern limit of the Sea of Okhotsk. [P 3] On the North. The Southern limits of the Bering Sea [P 4] and the Gulf of Alaska. [P 5] On the East. The Western limit of Coastal waters of Southeast Alaska and Br. Columbia, [P 6] and the Southern limit of the Gulf of ...
Much of the peninsula is part of the Bering Land Bridge Preserve, administered by the National Park Service. The Seward Peninsula has several distinct geologic features. The Devil Mountain Lakes on the northern portion of the peninsula are the largest maar lakes in the world and part of the Espenberg volcanic field.