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The area of the sea is 361,000 square miles; most of the time it is covered with Ice . 70% of it is no deeper than 50m, the deepest point being 155m. The coast is mostly flat in the West (up to the mouth of the Kolyma ), mountainous in the East. Average temperatures (air) is 0°C to 2°C (4°C in the South) in the summer, reaching -30°C in the winter. The sea was navigated by Russia n sea-farers, moving from one river mouth to another in their Koch s as early as the 17th Century . In 1648 Semyon Dezhnev and Fedot Alekseev sailed the coast from the Kolyma to river Anadyr and Bering Strait . Systematic exploration and mapping of the sea and its coasts was carried out by a series of expeditions in 1735 - 42 , 1820 - 24 , 1822 , 1909 , 1911 - 14 . Principal port is ) |