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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 ...
The Bering Straits divide Asia from North America. On the southeast of Asia are the Malay Peninsula (the limit of mainland Asia) and Indonesia ("Isles of India", the former East Indies), a vast nation among thousands of islands on the Sunda Shelf, large and small, inhabited and uninhabited. Australia nearby is a different continent.
The Bering Strait and Bering Sea separate the landmasses of Asia and North America, as well as forming the international boundary between Russia and the United States. This national and continental boundary separates the Diomede Islands in the Bering Strait, with Big Diomede in Russia and Little Diomede in the U.S.
Defense Mapping Agency topographical map of the Bering Strait, 1973. From at least 1562, European geographers thought that there was a Strait of Anián between Asia and North America. In 1648, Semyon Dezhnyov probably passed through the strait, but his report did not reach Europe. Danish-born Russian navigator Vitus Bering entered it in
The expedition was neither at the most easterly point of Asia (as Bering had supposed) nor had it succeed in discovering the Alaskan coast of America, which on a good day would have been visible to the east. [7] [8] As promised, on 16 August, Bering turned St. Gabriel around, heading back towards Kamchatka. On 31 August, the ship was hit by a ...
The Bering Sea — a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean, between the U.S. in Alaska and the Russian Far East in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug and Kamchatka Krai. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
At 95 km (59 mi) long by 15 km (9.3 mi) wide, it is the largest and westernmost of the Commander Islands, with an area of 1,667 km (1,036 mi). [2] Most of Bering Island and several of the smaller islands in their entirety are now part of the Komandorsky Zapovednik nature preserve.
On the Southwest. The Northeastern limit of the East Indian Archipelago from the Equator to Luzon Island. On the West and Northwest. 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 ...