See also: Bering

The Bering Sea , or sea of Behring , is a Mer of the Pacific Ocean located at the north of the Aleutian Islands. Of a surface of more than 2  000  000  km ², it is bordered in the west by the peninsula of the Kamtchatka and the southern parts of the Péninsule Tchouktche in Siberia, in the east by the Alaska and in north by the Bering Strait which separates it from the Mer of Tchouktches of the Arctic Ocean.

The interactions between the currents, the ices, the relief of sea-beds and the weather makes this sea a very rich ecosystem. It includes/understands the deep basin of Bering in the south-west which goes back rather abruptly to the approach of the coasts and a large continental shelf in the North-East.

The Bering Sea is divided between the jurisdictions American and Russian with a central zone in International water, the " Donut Hole ". Many ports and exploitations of fishings exist along the coasts of Alaska and Kamchatka, the Bering Sea being one of full of fish in the world.

It bears the name of the Danish explorer Vitus Bering which was the first European to traverse it.

Islands

• island Bering
• islands Diomède
• island Hagemeister
• island Nounivak
• island Karaginski
• islands Komandorski or islands of the Commander
• island Bering
• island Medny
• islands Pribilof:
• island Otter
• island Saint-George
• island Saint-Paul
• island the St. Lawrence
• island Saint-Matthieu
• island Stuart

See too

• Bering Strait
• Peninsula of Alaska
• Aleutian Islands