Nemuro Strait

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Nemuro Strait

a strait that lies between Kunashir and Hokkaido islands. It is the northern extension of Izmena Strait. In the extreme south, Nemuro Strait connects the Okhotsk Sea with the Pacific Ocean. It is 74 km long and measures 43 km wide in the north and 24 km wide in the south. The strait reaches depths of 2,500 m in the north and 17–20 m in the south. The shores are generally steep and slightly jagged. Nemuro Strait freezes over in the winter.

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No references found			Within Japan, a general regional structuring of populations was observed, with populations from the Pacific coast of Honshu Island forming a distinct group (92% of dendrograms evaluated), as did populations from the Nemuro Strait (89% of dendrograms) and the eastern Pacific coast of Hokkaido Island (50% of dendrograms). Population structure of chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) across the ... by Beacham, Terry D.; Candy, John R.; Le, Khai D.; Wetklo, Michael / Fishery Bulletin Meanwhile, the Oyashio Current, with low water temperature and high nutrient levels, containing meltwater from drift ice in the Sea of Okhotsk, flows into the Pacific Ocean through the Nemuro Strait, then flows southwestward along the eastern coast of Hokkaido (Nagata et al. Coincidence in reproduction of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus ... by Matsui, Toshiyuki; Agatsuma, Yukio; Ogasawara, Makoto; Taniguchi, Kazuya / Journal of Shellfish Research			Nemirov Nemirov Congress of 1737 Nemirov Gorodishche Nemirovich-Danchenko School-Studio Nemirovich-Danchenko, Vasilii Nemirovich-Danchenko, Vasilii Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Vladimir Ivanovich Nemitts, Aleksandr Nemitts, Aleksandr Vasilevich Nemniuga Nemo, Captain Nemognathinae Nemophila nemoral Nemoral Flora and Fauna Nemoralia Nemours, Count Nemours, Gaston de Foix, duc de Nemours, Louis Charles Philippe Raphaël d'Orléans, duc de Nemrut Nemrut, Mount Nemtsev, Iosif Nemtsev, Iosif Vasilevich Nemunas Nemuro Strait Nen Nen River Nen-chiang Nenadkevich, Konstantin Nenadkevich, Konstantin Avtonomovich Nenagh Nenana Ice Classic Nenchev, Teodor Nencki, Marceli nene Nenets Nenets Autonomous Area Nenets National Okrug Nenitescu, Costin Nenjiang Nenko Dimitrov Balkanski Nenni, Pietro Nennius Nentsi Neo neo-, ne- Neo-Adamesque style Neo-Baroque Neo-Byzantine Neo-Colonial architecture			NEMS-S Nemsa NEMSAC NEMSAL NEMSC NEMSCOM NEMSDC NEMSES NEMSI NEMSIS NEMSMS NEMSN NEMSPA NEMSS NEMT NEMTA NEMTC NEMTEC Nemtsev, Iosif Nemtsev, Iosif Vasilevich NEMU NEMUG Nemunas Nemunas River Nemuro Strait NEMVAC NEMVP NEMW NEMYC Nemyriv Nemzetbiztonsági Hivatal Nemzeti Civil Alapprogram Nemzeti és Etnikai Kisebbségi Jogvédõ Irodát Nemzeti Filharmonikus Zenekar Nemzeti Hírközlési Hatóság Nemzeti Informacios Infrastruktura Fejlesztesi Iroda Nemzeti Kulturális Alapprogram Nen Nen Nen Chiang Nen Jiang Nen River Nen River (China) Nen-chiang NENA NENA NENA NENAAA Nenad Nenadkevich, Konstantin Nenadkevich, Konstantin Avtonomovich NENAEA

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