Ekaterina Street

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Ekaterina Street
Card with Russian names. In the center of the picture is Ekaterina Street, southwest of Kunashir, northeast of Iturup.
Card with Russian names. In the center of the picture is Ekaterina Street, southwest of Kunashir, northeast of Iturup.
Connects waters Sea of ​​Okhotsk
with water Pacific Ocean
Separates land mass Kunashir
of land mass Iturup
Data
Geographical location 44 ° 26 '  N , 146 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 26 '  N , 146 ° 43'  E
Ekaterina Street (Sakhalin Oblast)
Ekaterina Street
Smallest width 22 km
Greatest depth 500 m

The Yekaterina Strait ( Russian пролив Екатерины ; proliw Jekateriny ) is a sea strait between the Kuril islands of Kunashir in the southwest and Iturup in the northeast, which belong to Russia and are claimed by Japan . It connects the Sea of ​​Okhotsk in the west with the Pacific Ocean in the east. The strait is 22 km wide and between 150 and 500 m deep. Between February and March, drift ice from the northern part of the Sea of ​​Okhotsk reaches the strait, but unlike the more northerly thoroughfares it remains ice-free and is therefore of strategic importance for the Russian Pacific Fleet.

The road bears the name of the Russian ship Yekaterina , which was under way on a trade mission near Japan in 1792 under the leadership of Adam Laksman .

literature

  • G. Gilbo: Sprawotschnik po istorii geografitscheskich naswani na pobereschje SSSR . Ministerstwo oborony Soiusa SSR, Glaw. upr. nawigazii i okeanografii, 1985, p. 107. (Russian)

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