Bering Strait

Published on 20 Nov 2025

• A study found that vessel movements in the Bering Strait are generally following the designated routes and safety rules set up in 2018 by the U.S. and Russia through the International Maritime Organization (IMO).. 

• The Bering Strait is a narrow (85 km), shallow (50 m) strait (narrow waterway that connects two larger bodies of water) between Russia’s Cape Dezhnev and Alaska’s Cape Prince of Wales that links the Bering Sea to the Chukchi Sea in the Arctic Ocean.

• The Bering Strait is named after Vitus Bering, a Danish explorer who served the Russian Empire and led the First Kamchatka and Great Northern Expeditions. 

• In 1728, he sailed through the strait, proving that Asia and North America are separate continents.

• It includes key islands like the Diomede Islands—Big Diomede (Russia) and Little Diomede (USA)—divided by the International Date Line, and the St. Lawrence Islands.

  
  

https://www.britannica.com/place/Bering-Strait

https://en.portnews.ru/news/380555/

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Bering Strait U.S Russia Maritime Organization IMO Straits Cape Dezhnev Cape Prince of Wales Bering Sea Chukchi Sea Diomede Islands