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Boundaries of the city of False Pass, Alaska. False Pass is at (54.827886, -163.399090 It is near the eastern end of Unimak Island, in the Aleutian Islands chain. Part of the city (26.093 km 2, or 10.075 sq mi) is on the mainland's westernmost tip Alaska Peninsula, across the Isanotski Strait (about 600 meters at the closest point), although that section is nearly unpopulated.
The Bering Strait (Russian: Берингов пролив, romanized: Beringov proliv) is a strait between the Pacific and Arctic oceans, separating the Chukchi Peninsula of the Russian Far East from the Seward Peninsula of Alaska. The present Russia - United States maritime boundary is at 168° 58' 37" W longitude, slightly south of the Arctic ...
The village of False Pass, Alaska on Isanotski Strait. Isanotski Strait is a strait connecting the northern Gulf of Alaska with the Bering Sea, in the U.S. state of Alaska. Isanax̂ (variously spelled Issannakh, Isanak etc.) is the Aleut name for present day Isanotski Strait, and means gap, hole, rent, or tear in the Aleut language which was ...
Sea of the northern Pacific Ocean off the coast of Alaska and Russia. Bering Sea. Map showing the location of the Bering Sea with latitude and longitude zones of the Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system. Bering Sea. Coordinates. 58°0′N 178°0′W / 58.000°N 178.000°W / 58.000; -178.000. Basin countries.
Updated August 21, 2024 at 1:04 PM. Fishermen and scientists were alarmed when billions of crabs vanished from the Bering Sea near Alaska in 2022. It wasn’t overfishing, scientists explained ...
Unimak pass shearwater flock. The Fox Islands Passes are waterways in the Fox Islands area of the U.S. state of Alaska, connecting the Bering Sea with the North Pacific Ocean. From the southward and eastward, bound for Bering Sea, there are three passes used by deep-draft vessels, known collectively as the Fox Islands Passes, and respectively ...
Crew. 4–6. FV Scandies Rose (Fishing Vessel Scandies Rose) [1] was a crab fishing vessel built in 1978 by Bender Shipbuilding out of Mobile, Alabama. [2][3] Originally named Enterprise, she was registered in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. She mainly fished for king crabs, opilio crabs, and Pacific cod, in both the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska. [3]
A Bering Strait crossing is a hypothetical bridge or tunnel that would span the relatively narrow and shallow Bering Strait between the Chukotka Peninsula in Russia and the Seward Peninsula in the U.S. state of Alaska. The crossing would provide a connection linking the Americas and Afro-Eurasia. With the two Diomede Islands between the ...