Korea Street

Korea Street
	Map with the location of Koreastrasse
Connects waters	Japanese sea
with water	East China Sea
Separates land mass	Korean peninsula
of land mass	Kyushu , Honshu
	Data
Geographical location	34 ° 36 ' N , 129 ° 48' E Coordinates: 34 ° 36 ' N , 129 ° 48' E
Smallest width	200 km
Greatest depth	227 m
Coastal towns	Pusan , Fukuoka
Islands	Tsushima , Iki , Jejudo

Korea Street
Japanese name
Kanji	対馬海峡
Hepburn	Tsushima Kaikyō
South Korean name
Hangeul	대한 해협
Hanja	大韓海峽
Revised	Daehan Haehyeop
McCune-Reischauer	Taehan Haehyŏp

The Korea Strait (rarely Strait of Korea or Tsushima strait is called) a sea passage between the East China Sea to the southwest and the Sea of Japan in the northeast. The Korean Strait is bounded in the north by the Korean Peninsula and in the south by the Japanese islands of Kyūshū and Honshū .

The passage is about 90 meters deep and is divided by the Tsushima Islands .

Naming

Koreastrasse is sometimes also called Krusenstern-Strasse after Adam Johann von Krusenstern , the first circumnavigator in Russian service.

The eastern part (or the southeastern passage) is often also called Tsushima Street , the western part (or northwestern passage) was once known as Chōsen Street and is now also known as the Strait of Korea . Another classification calls the entire Korea Street Tsushima Street .

Ocean current

An offshoot of the Kuroshio ( Japanstrom ) passes the Koreastrasse to the northeast. The warm arm of the current is called the Tsushima Current and is native to the Japanese Islands. The river eventually flows into the Pacific , more precisely into the Sea of Okhotsk near Sakhalin .

history

In May 1905, during the Russo-Japanese War , the sea battle at Tsushima took place in the Korea Strait . In the decisive battle, the Imperial Japanese Navy defeated the Second Pacific Squadron of the Imperial Russian Navy .