A marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean, the Bering Sea is separated by the Alaska Peninsula from the Gulf of Alaska. Covering an area of 2,291,900 sq. km, it was named after Vitus Bering who explored it in 1728 as the navigator sailed to the Arctic Ocean from the Pacific Ocean. It borders with Alaska on the east and north east, Kamchatka Peninsula and the Russia’s far east in the north, Alaska Peninsula on the South and the Bering Strait on the far north. With a good interaction in the weather, water currents and sea ice, this sea is a part of the productive ecosystem for a lot of marine life.
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