page_title: Bering Sea
section_title: Regions
hierarchical_section_title: Bering Sea / Geography / Regions
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Die "Rurik" liegt vor der Insel Sankt Paul in der Beringsee. Gezeichnet vom Expeditionsteilnehmer Louis Choris im Jahr 1817. English: The russian "Rurik" sets anchor near Saint Paul Island in the Bering sea in order to load food and equipment for the expedition to the chukchi sea in the north. Drawing by Louis Choris in 1817.
context_page_description: The Bering Sea is a marginal sea of the Northern Pacific Ocean. It forms, along with the Bering Strait, the divide between the two largest landmasses on Earth: Eurasia and The Americas. It comprises a deep water basin, which then rises through a narrow slope into the shallower water above the continental shelves. The Bering Sea is named for Vitus Bering, a Danish navigator in Russian service, who in 1728 was the first European to systematically explore it, sailing from the Pacific Ocean northward to the Arctic Ocean.
  The Bering Sea is separated from the Gulf of Alaska by the Alaska Peninsula. It covers over 2,000,000 square kilometers and is bordered on the east and northeast by Alaska, on the west by Russian Far East and the Kamchatka Peninsula, on the south by the Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands and on the far north by the Bering Strait, which connects the Bering Sea to the Arctic Ocean's Chukchi Sea. Bristol Bay is the portion of the Bering Sea between the Alaska Peninsula and Cape Newenham on mainland Southwest Alaska.
context_section_description: Regions of the Bering Sea include:
  Bering Strait
  Bristol Bay
  Gulf of Anadyr
  Norton Sound
  The Bering Sea contains 16 submarine canyons including the largest submarine canyon in the world, Zhemchug Canyon.
caption: The Russian "Rurik" sets anchor near Saint Paul Island in the Bering sea in order to load food and equipment for the expedition to the Chukchi sea in the north. Drawing by Louis Choris in 1817.
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