 It comprises a deep water basin, which then rises through a narrow slope into the shallower water above the continental shelves.The Bering Sea is separated from the Gulf of Alaska by the Alaska Peninsula.It covers over and is bordered on the east and northeast by Alaska, on the west by Russian Far East and the Kamchatka Peninsula, on the south by the Alaska Peninsula and the Aleutian Islands and on the far north by the Bering Strait, which connects the Bering Sea to the Arctic Ocean's Chukchi Sea.