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Bering Sea Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is 81,340 acres (32,920 ha) in area and was designated by the United States Congress in 1970. It encompasses St. Matthew Island , Hall Island , and Pinnacle Island and is part of the larger Bering Sea unit of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge .
Medny Island ( Russian: о́стров Ме́дный ), also spelled Mednyy or Mednyi, sometimes called Copper Island in English (literally translated from Russian), is the smaller (after Bering Island) of the two main islands in the Commander Islands in the North Pacific Ocean, east of Kamchatka, Russia. (The other fifteen are better ...
Part of the 2014–15 North American winter. The November 2014 Bering Sea cyclone (also referred to as Post-Tropical Cyclone Nuri by the U.S. government) was the most intense extratropical cyclone (also a bomb cyclone) ever recorded in the Bering Sea, which formed from a new storm developing out of the low-level circulation that separated from ...
The sea has an approximate area of 595,000 square kilometres (230,000 sq mi) and is only navigable about four months of the year. The main geological feature of the Chukchi Sea bottom is the 700-kilometer-long (430 mi) Hope Basin, which is bound to the northeast by the Herald Arch. Depths less than 50 meters (160 ft) occupy 56% of the total area.
Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) is an extinct sirenian described by Georg Wilhelm Steller in 1741. At that time, it was found only around the Commander Islands in the Bering Sea between Alaska and Russia; its range extended across the North Pacific during the Pleistocene epoch, and likely contracted to such an extreme degree due to the glacial cycle.
It is part of the Bering Sea unit of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. Population. The island was once the winter home of a group of about 413 Inupiat who called themselves Asiuluk, meaning "people of the sea," or Ugiuvaŋmiut, from Ugiuvak, the village of King Island and "miut," meaning "people of" or "group of people".
Beringinmeri ( ven. Бе́рингово мо́ре, engl. Bering Sea) on Tyynenmeren pohjoisimman osan muodostava merialue. Muusta Tyynestämerestä Beringinmeren rajaavat Alaskan niemimaa ja Aleuttien saaristo. Pohjoisessa Beringinmeren erottaa Pohjoisesta jäämerestä 90 kilometriä leveä Beringinsalmi, [1] jonka löysi vuonna 1648 ...
