Bering Strait
Alaska-Russia water gap
The Bering Strait is the narrow passage of water separating Asia from North America, with Russia on one side and Alaska on the other.
About fifty-five miles wide at its narrowest point, it connects the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific.
During ice ages, lowered sea levels exposed a land bridge here—Beringia—across which humans first migrated to the Americas.
- SiberiaRussia's eastern expanse
- AlaskaAmerica's frozen northwest
- coldLow temperature state
- iceWater's solid form
- RussiaEurasian federation, largest country
gateway · Arctic Ocean · cold war · Northern Sea Route · polar exploration · seal · indigenous cultures · native peoples · marine mammals · subsistence hunting · whale hunting · fog · Asia · drift ice · walrus · waterway · migratory route · passage
- Arctic WatersArctic Ocean, Hudson Bay, Northwest Passage, Northeast Passage, Northern Sea Route
- Pacific Straits
- Seward PeninsulaNome, Teller, Solomon, Wales, Snake River
- watersoceans, seas, Red Sea, lakes, Black Sea
- AlaskaFairbanks, Juneau, Denali, Sitka, Kodiak
- ArcticArctic Circle, Arctic Ocean, Arctic wildlife, Arctic exploration, Arctic research
geographic body type
Bering Straitgulf
Partially enclosed sea
bay · Gulf of Mexico · Bay of Bengal · Hudson Bay · Persian Gulf