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Bering Sea

noun

Part of the North Pacific between Alaska and Siberia; connected to the Arctic Ocean by the Bering Strait.

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... along the coast of the Bering Sea are called barabaras, but the ones that we are going to build now are in form almost identical with the Pawnee hogan (Figs. 42 and 43), the real difference being in the peculiar log work of the barabara in place of the teepee-like rafters of the ...

— Shelters, Shacks and Shanties • D.C. Beard

... other. When you two come together, hell'll be to pay, and I don't care to be mixed up in it. Understand? So take my advice and go away. If you go down-stream, you'll fall in with the Russians. There's bound to be Greek priests among them, and they'll see you safe through to Bering Sea,—that's where the Yukon empties,—and from there it won't be hard to get back to civilization. Take my word for it and get out of here as ...

— The God of His Fathers • Jack London

... seals had been killed at sea, and over 300,000 young seals had died of starvation as the result. The revolting barbarity of such a practise, as well as the wasteful destruction which it involves, needs no demonstration and is its own condemnation. The Bering Sea Tribunal, which sat in Paris in 1893, and which decided against the claims of the United States to exclusive jurisdiction in the waters of Bering Sea and to a property right in the fur seals when outside ...

— State of the Union Addresses of Theodore Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt

Words linked to "Bering Sea" : pacific, Pacific Ocean, sea