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Okhotsk, Sea of |
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Okhotsk, Sea of (ōkŏtsk`), Rus. Okhotskoye More, 590,000 sq mi (1,528,100 sq km), northwest arm of the Pacific Ocean, W of the Kamchatka peninsula and the Kuril Islands. It is connected with the Sea of Japan by the Tatar and La Pérouse straits and with the Pacific Ocean by passages through the Kuril Islands. The sea is generally less than 5,000 ft (1,524 m) deep; its deepest point, near the Kuriles, is 11,033 ft (3,363 m). The sea is icebound from November to June and has frequent heavy fogs. Fishing and crabbing are carried on off W Kamchatka peninsula. Magadan and Korsakov, in the Russian Far East, are the largest ports. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Since then, warming farther north in the Sea of Okhotsk has melted ice there and sent additional fresh water southward. The Moscow resident is a native of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Eastern Russia, which is wedged between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea and famous for its frozen wilderness, but this summer Andre is among 220 high school students on a foreign exchange trip in Ventura County. In one of the more gripping incidents detailed in the book, the USS Seawolf was on the bottom of the desolate Siberian Sea of Okhotsk, tapping undersea telephone cables, when a powerful storm threatened to bury her in the seabed. |
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