Sea of Okhotsk
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Map showing the depth (in feet )
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| Russian name | |
| Cyrillic alphabet | Охо́тское мо́ре |
| transcription | Okhotskoye More |
| Japanese name | |
| Kanji / Kana | オ ホ ー ツ ク 海 |
| Hepburn | Ohotsuku-kai |
The Sea of Okhotsk is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean in East Asia ( Northwestern Pacific Region ).
geography
It lies between eastern Siberia in the north-west, Kamchatka in the north-east, the Kuriles in the south-east, the island of Hokkaidō in the south and Sakhalin in the south-west. Countries bordering this sea are Japan and Russia . In the northeast of the Sea of Okhotsk is the Shelichov Bay with the Penschinabusen and Gischigabusen . On the north coast near Magadan is the Taui Bay , in the west the Uda Bay , the Tugur Bay , the Akadamie Bay and the Sakhalin Bay . South of the Sakhalin Bay is the Tatar Sound . In front of the Tugur Bay is the archipelago of the Shantar Islands . The Strait of La Pérouse south of Sakhalin connects the Sea of Okhotsk with the Sea of Japan . The Amur flows into the Tatar Sound as the most important river in the region.
Data
The area of the Sea of Okhotsk is 1.53 million km². The depth of the sea increases from mainland Russia to the Kuril Islands. The mean depth is 971 meters, the deepest point has a value of 3372 meters.
Most of it freezes over for months in winter, apart from an area in the middle of the sea, or is largely covered with drift ice . The marine area is also notorious for frequent storms and thick fog .
The only island in the open sea is the remote Jonas Island in the northwestern part of the Sea of Okhotsk, about halfway between Magadan and Nikolaevsk on the Amur .
The sea has a high bio-productivity and is rich in fish. This is heavily used by the Russian side.
Surname
Origin of name
The sea is named after the Russian port of Okhotsk . This represented the first Russian settlement in the Far East .
Former names of the sea
In Japanese , the Sea of Okhotsk was previously called Hokkai ( 北海 ), which means something like the North Sea / Sea . In order to avoid confusion with the European North Sea , the name was replaced by the term Ohōtsuku-kai ( オ ホ ー ツ ク 海 ), based on the Russian name.
history
On December 18, 2011, the Kolskaya drilling platform of the Russian company Arktikmorneftegasraswedka sank in the Sea of Okhotsk .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d The New Knaur . 1st edition, Volume 7, section Ochotskisches Meer , Droemersche Verlagsanstalt Th. Knaur Nachf., Munich / Zurich 1975. P. 4404
- ↑ a b Brockhaus Enzyklopädie , 19th edition, Volume 16, section Ochotskisches Meer , F. A. Brockhaus, Mannheim 1991. P. 88
- ↑ a b The Brockhaus in text and images [SW], electronic edition for the office library, Bibliographisches Institut & FA Brockhaus, 2003; Article Sea of Okhotsk
- ↑ AA Vetrov, EA Romankevich, Carbon Cycle in the Russian Arctic Seas , Berlin, Heidelberg (Springer) 2004, ISBN 978-3642059919
Coordinates: 54 ° N , 149 ° E