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Bering Island
Bering Island (остров Беринга), largest of Russia's Commander Islands in the Bering Sea 175 km east of Kamchatka; named for Vitus Bering, who was shipwrecked and died there in 1741; village Nikolskoye.
Commander Islands
Commander Islands (Командорские острова, Komandorskiye ostrova), Russian four-island archipelago, westernmost Aleutians, 175 km east of Kamchatka; discovered 1741 when Vitus Bering was wrecked and died on Bering Island; excluded from the 1867 Alaska purchase; only village Nikolskoye.
Paramushir
Paramushir (Парамушир, 幌筵島) is the second-largest Kuril island, about 2,000 km², with active Ebeko volcano and the town of Severo-Kurilsk, hit by a deadly 1952 tsunami.
St. Matthew Island
Saint Matthew Island is an uninhabited volcanic island in the north-central Bering Sea, part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge with Hall and Pinnacle islands. Known for McKay's bunting, million-plus seabirds, the 1944 reindeer introduction that peaked near 6,000 before collapsing, and a peat-core record of Bering Sea sea ice.