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The Bering Sea is a body of water in the far northern Pacific Ocean covering over two million square kilometers. It is bordered to the north and east by Alaska, to the west by Siberia in Russia, and to the south by the Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands. The sea is named for its discoverer, the Danish navigator Vitus Bering.During the most recent ice age, the sea level was at a low enough level to allow humans and other animals to migrate from Asia to North America on foot across what is now the Bering StraitThe Bering Strait is a sea strait between Cape Dezhnev, the eastmost point of the Asian continent and Cape Prince of Wales, the westernmost point of the American continent, about 85 km in width, with a depth of 30 50 m. The strait connects the Chukchi Sea, located on the northern side of the sea. This is commonly referred to as the " Bering land bridgeThe Bering land bridge also known as Beringia was a land bridge roughly 1600 km (1000 miles) across, which is believed to have joined present-day Alaska and eastern Russia at various times during the ice ages. The sea floor under the Bering Strait is shal" and is believed to be the first entry of humans into the AmericasThe Americas (sometimes referred to as America is the area including the land mass located between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, generally divided into North America and South America. The term also usually includes the Caribbean, the islands.
Islands of the Bering Sea include:
- Pribilof IslandsThe Pribilof Islands (often called the Fur Seal Islands Russian: Kotovi are a group of four 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 m
- Bering IslandBering Island ( Russian: Ostrov Beringa is located off the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Bering Sea. At 90 kilometers (55 miles) long by 20 kilometers (15 miles) wide, it is the largest of the Komandorski Islands. It is desolate and experiences severe weathe
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