For the past 2 days, we have been sailing through the Bering Sea. This sea covers over 2,000,000 square kilometres, and is named for Vitus Bering, a Danish navigator who explored it in 1728. The Bering Sea is bordered on the east by Alaska, and on the west by the Russain Far East. The Bering Strait, which connects the Bering Sea to the Arctic Ocean, is to the far north. The Bering sea is also home to a large variety of wildlife, including beluga whales, humpback whales, bowhead whales, walrus, S