Bering Strait

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Map of the Bering Sea and Bering Strait showing physical features, including surrounding landmasses of eastern Russia and western Alaska, major peninsulas, islands, and underwater basins and trenches. Depths are illustrated with shading, and key cities such as Nome in Alaska and Anadyr in Russia are labeled, along with international boundaries.

Map highlighting the Bering Strait, the narrow waterway between eastern Russia and Alaska in the United States, connecting the Chukchi Sea to the Bering Sea. Surrounding regions including the Arctic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and Gulf of Alaska are labeled, with a locator inset showing the area's position in the Northern Hemisphere.

Map showing the routes of Vitus Bering's two major expeditions between Russia and Alaska. The first expedition (1728-30) is marked with a green line, traveling from the Kamchatka Peninsula north through the Bering Strait. The second expedition (1733-41) is shown with a red line, extending east from Russia past Bering Island and the Aleutian Islands to the Gulf of Alaska. Major geographic features such as the Bering Sea, Chukchi Sea, and Arctic Ocean are labeled.

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Invalidated site: National Defense University Press - The Bering Strait: An arena for great power competition.	Gloria Lotha	Sep 30, 2026
	Add new Web site: Science Advances - Sea level fingerprinting of the Bering Strait flooding history detects the source of the Younger Dryas climate event.	Gloria Lotha	Mar 12, 2025
	Add new Web site: U.S. Naval Institute - New Challenges for the Bering Strait.	Gloria Lotha	Jan 27, 2025
	Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Role of the Bering Strait on the hysteresis of the ocean conveyor belt circulation and glacial climate stability.	Emily Rodriguez	Dec 02, 2024
	Add new Web site: National Defense University Press - The Bering Strait: An arena for great power competition.	Gloria Lotha	Jun 14, 2024
	Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Role of the Bering Strait on the hysteresis of the ocean conveyor belt circulation and glacial climate stability.	Aakanksha Gaur	Apr 23, 2024
	Add new Web site: PNAS - The Bering Strait was flooded 10,000 years before the Last Glacial Maximum.	Gloria Lotha	Feb 09, 2024
	Add new Web site: PNAS - The Bering Strait was flooded 10,000 years before the Last Glacial Maximum.	Gloria Lotha	Aug 25, 2023
	Map added.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jun 26, 2023
	Map added.	Michele Metych	May 01, 2023
	Add new Web site: Ocean Conservancy - Protecting the Arctic: The Bering Strait: The Gateway to the Arctic.	Gloria Lotha	Jan 30, 2023
	Add new Web site: NASA Earth Observatory - Ice and Clouds in the Bering Strait.	Darshana Das	Oct 11, 2011
	Add new Web site: Fact Monster - World - Bering Strait.	Darshana Das	Aug 24, 2011
	Added photo to article.	Kenneth Pletcher	Jan 19, 2009
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998