Sea of Okhotsk

The Sea of ​​Okhotsk is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean in East Asia ( Northwestern Pacific ).

  • 2.1 Origin of the name
  • 2.2 Previous names of the sea

Geography

It lies between eastern Siberia in the northwest, Kamchatka in the north-east, the Kuril Islands to the southeast, the island of Hokkaidō and Sakhalin in the south to the southwest. The countries bordering this sea are Japan and Russia. The Tatar Strait to the north and the Strait of La Pérouse south of Sakhalin connect the Okhotsk with the Sea of ​​Japan. In the Tatar Strait of Amur flows as the most important river of the region.

Data

The area of ​​the Okhotsk Sea is 1.53 million km ². The depth of the sea increases to the Kurile Islands of the Russian mainland down. The average depth amounts to 971 meters, the deepest point has a value of 3372 meters.

The majority of freezes in the winter months, except for an area in the middle of the sea, or the wide part is covered with drift ice. The sea area is also notorious for frequently occurring storm and dense fog.

The only island in the open sea is the Jonas remote island in the northwestern part of the Okhotsk Sea, approximately halfway between Magadan and Nikolaievsk -on-Amur.

The sea has a high bioproductivity and is rich in fish. It is used heavily by the Russian side.

Name

Origin of the name

Named is the sea to the Russian port of Okhotsk. This represented the first Russian settlement in the Far East dar.

Previous names of the sea

In Japanese, the Sea of ​​Okhotsk was formerly known Hokkai (北海), which means as much as the North Sea / Sea. To avoid confusion with those of the North, it has replaced the name with the term Ohotsuku -kai (オホーツク 海), based on the Russian name.

History

On December 18, 2011 fell in the Okhotsk Sea, the drilling platform Kolskaja the Russian company Arktikmorneftegasraswedka.

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