Pacific North Current

The open Pacific south of the Aleutian Islands separates the shores of Asia and America by thousands of miles. To the north, Vitus Bering and Aleksei Chirikov sailed from Kamchatka in 1741 in search of the American coast. Storms separated their ships; both reached Alaska, but Bering's return ended with a wreck on an island off Kamchatka and a winter that he did not survive.