Sea of Okhotsk
English
editEtymology
editNamed after Okhotsk, the first Russian settlement in the Far East, whose name is derived from Even окат (okat, “river”).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
edit- A sea between the Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, the island of Hokkaidō to the far south, the island of Sakhalin along the west, and a long stretch of eastern Siberian coast along the west and north.
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