Kamchatka Strait

Location map of Kamchatka Strait between Kamchatka Peninsula and Bering Island.

Kamchatka Strait (Russian: Камчатский пролив) is a 191 km-wide strait off the mainland coast of Kamchatka Krai in the Russian Far East.

Geography

It separates the mainland on Kamchatka Peninsula from Bering Island, one of the Commander Islands group.

Kamchatka Strait connects the Bering Sea in the north with the Pacific Ocean in the south.[1]

Notes

References

  1. ↑ Overland J.E., Spillane M.C., Hurlburt H.E. and Wallcraft A.J. A numerical study of the circulation of the Bering Sea basin and exchange with the North Pacific Ocean // J. Phys. Oceanogr. — 1994. — Vol. 93. — P. 15,619-15,637.

55°39′N 164°33′E / 55.650°N 164.550°E / 55.650; 164.550


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