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Bering Island
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Bering Island is a Russian island located in the Bering Sea as part of the Commander Islands group. It is historically significant as the place where the naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller made discoveries during an expedition in the 18th century, and it remains ecologically important as a habitat for marine wildlife.
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Key facts
- Location
- Bering Sea
- Oblast
- Kamchatskaya
- City
- Nikolskoye
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Part of
- Commander Islands
- Named after
- Vitus Bering
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Kamchatka Krai
- Capital
- Nikolskoye, Kamchatka Krai
- Population
- 613
- Area
- 1667
- Elevation
- 755
- Time zone
- UTC+12:00
- Body of water
- Bering Sea
- Image
- WW Bering Island.jpg
- Width
- 15
- Length
- 95
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- Commons category
- Bering Island
- native label
- Остров Беринга
- located in/on physical feature
- Commander Islands
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Encyclopedic overview
Group of Aleut hunters from Bering Island in the mid 1880s. The grave of Vitus Bering Bering Island (Russian: Остров Беринга, romanized: Ostrov Beringa) is located off the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Bering Sea.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bering Island” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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