It takes the sled dog teams over two mountain ranges, the frozen Yukon River and the treacherous Bering Sea ice en route to the finish line in Nome.

Source: https://www.gjsentinel.com/sports/professional/defending-champion-leaves-iditarod-race-over-health-concerns/article_205676dc-ef74-568d-a318-68af5c302096.html

’s retired Earth Radiation Budget Satellite reentered Earth’s atmosphere over the Bering Sea at 11:04 p.m. EST on Sunday, Jan.

Source: https://www.chiangraitimes.com/tech/nasas-satellite-erbs-returns-to-earth/

The Iditarod Trail Invitational, a bike, ski and foot race, travels from Knik Lake near Anchorage to the interior community of McGrath, continuing to the Bering Sea before reaching the trail’s conclusion in Nome.

Source: https://alaskapublic.org/2023/03/17/anchorage-man-wins-2023-iditarod-trail-invitational/

They encountered one extreme heat wave in their critical first summer when they were in the northern Bering Sea and then, when they entered their wintering grounds in the Gulf of Alaska, swam into the tail end of another extreme heat wave, he said.

Source: https://www.newsminer.com/news/alaska_news/study-points-to-concurrent-marine-heat-waves-as-culprit-in-western-alaska-chum-declines/article_8559b2e2-9236-11ee-9d69-c32406494403.html