Bering Island

Bering Island () is located off the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Bering Sea () . At 90 kilometers (55 miles) long by 24 kilometers (15 miles) wide, it is the largest of the Komandorski Islands .

It is desolate and experiences severe weather, but is inhabited—the village of Nikolskoye is home to 800 people, roughly 300 of them Aleuts . Bering Island is a treeless island with hills. The island is foggy and is prone to earthquakes. The scant population on the island is involved mostly in Fishing .

Vitus Bering , sailing in ''Sviatoi Petr'' (''St. Peter''), was shipwrecked and died of an illness on Bering Island, along with 28 of his men.

This island is also un-commonly known as the "Floating Island" simply because it "floats" on the International Date Line .

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