Bering Sea

Description

This northern part of the Pacific Ocean is roughly cone shaped, with the apex in the north at the Bering Strait, and the curved bottom following the Aleutian Ridge (highlighted by the Aleutian and Komandorskiye¹ Islands). There are two main divisions, and two minor ones. The northeastern half is the shallow continental shelf shared by North America and Asia. The southwestern half consists of the Aleutian Basin (sometimes called the Bering Abyssal Plain), and the smaller Kamchatka and Bowers Basins. The last--offset from the larger basin by the Bowers Ridge--reaches down below 5,000 meters. The Kamchatka Basin is off the northeast of the peninsula it was named after, and west of the Shirskov Ridge.

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Footnotes

1. An alternate transliteration from Russian is Komandorskije.