The
Sea of Okhotsk (Rus.
Okhotskoe more), a part of the western
Pacific Ocean, lying between the peninsula of
Kamchatka, the
Kurile Islands, the
Japanese island of
Hokkaido, the island of
Sakhalin, and the
Amur province of East
Siberia. The
Sakhalin Gulf[?] and
Gulf of Tartary[?] connect it with the
Japanese Sea on the west of the island of Sakhalin, and on the south of this island is the
La Perouse Strait.
Based on an article from a well-known encyclopedia published in 1911.