Bering Sea. The Bering Sea ( BAIR-ing, BERR-ing, US also BEER-ing; Russian: ???????????????????? ??????????, romanized: B??ringovo m??re, IPA: [??b??er????n????v?? ??mor??e]) is a marginal sea of the Northern Pacific Ocean. It forms, along with the Bering Strait, the divide between the two largest landmasses on Earth: Eurasia and the Americas. It comprises a deep water basin, which then rises through a narrow slope into the shallower water above the continental shelves. The Bering Sea is named after Vitus Bering, a Danish-born Russian navigator, who, in 1728, was the first European to systematically explore it, sailing from the Pacific...
