Pacific North Current

Far south of Alaska and the Aleutians, the North Pacific is a wide expanse of deep water. The Russian expedition led by Bering and Chirikov explored the northern ocean between Kamchatka and America in 1741. Its two ships became separated; Bering reached the Alaskan coast, but on his return storms and illness forced his crew to winter on an island off Kamchatka, where he died.