It's not Lake Superior, but this sea contains St. Matthew Island, where overpopulation combined with extreme weather caused the island's reindeer population to fluctuate from 29 to 6,000 to 42 over the course of two decades.
It's not Lake Superior, but this sea contains St. Matthew Island, where overpopulation combined with extreme weather caused the island's reindeer population to fluctuate from 29 to 6,000 to 42 over the course of two decades. In 1943, American and Japanese fleets fought one of the few surface engagements of World War II around this sea's (*) Commander Islands, formerly home to the extinct Steller's sea cow. During the Cold War, the strait at the northern end of this sea was divided by the "Ice Curtain," which separated the Big and Little Diomede Islands. This sea, which lies south of the Chukchi Sea, is named after a Danish explorer who explored nearby Kamchatka for Peter the Great. For 10 points, name this sea separating Russia from Alaska.
It's not Lake Superior, but this sea contains St. Matthew Island, where overpopulation combined with extreme weather caused the island's reindeer population to fluctuate from 29 to 6,000 to 42 over the course of two decades.
Bering Sea