Bering Island

Bering Island
Native name:
Behring Island
Bering Island from space, March 1992
Map
Geography
LocationBering Sea
Coordinates55°0′3″N 166°16′23″E / 55.00083°N 166.27306°E / 55.00083; 166.27306[1]
Administration
Russia
OblastKamchatskaya
CityNikolskoye
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Group of Aleut hunters from Bering Island in the mid 1880s.
The grave of Vitus Bering

Bering Island (Russian: о́стров Бе́ринга, romanizedóstrov Béringa) is located off the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Bering Sea.

  1. ^ a b "Russia, RS26, Bering". GEOnet Names Server, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Archived from the original on 2020-04-10. Retrieved 2008-08-04.