Steller's Arch, located in the south-west coast of the largest of the Commander Islands - the Bering Island, 40 km from the village of Nikolskoye - a unique monument of nature, which is a geological structure in the form of an arch. Steller's Arch is part of the main character Commander and State Nature Biosphere Reserve. Its total height is about 20, 6 m.

For centuries, storm winds in the south-west coast of the picturesque island of Bering blown rock soft rock, leaving it only a stone arch. Admiring this amazing natural architectural structure, amazing to think that it did not man and nature.

This geological facility has been named after the German scientist, associate Petersburg Academy of Sciences Georg Wilhelm Steller. GV Steller was the Second Kamchatka Expedition, and in 1741-1742 gg. wintered on Bering Island, suffered a crash on packetboat "St. Apostle Peter. " During his stay on the island of German naturalist spent a huge amount of scientific research. He studied the topography and geology of the area, described more than 200 species of flowering plants and gathered a herbarium. In addition, scientists have collected a huge collection of birds, animals and fish. Among the most interesting collection of birds considered to be an open GV Steller Bering endemic - the spectacled cormorant. This bird is up to 14 pounds in weight. Steller is the only person who saw spectacled cormorant live and made its description.

A scientist has made a scientific description of the flora and fauna of Bering Island, included in the book "The physical and topographical description of Bering Island."
  The grand work of Georg Steller became useful to science. Numerous manuscripts and draft notes of the German scientist went to the Academy of Sciences and are now in its archive in St. Petersburg. Works of the scientist became known throughout the world.

In addition to the Arch Steller, in honor of Georg Steller Steller was named the mountain - the highest point of the island of Bering.