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The Sea of Okhotsk (Rus. Okhotskoe more), a part of the western Pacific Ocean, lying between the peninsula of Kamchatka, the Kurile Islands, the Japanese island of Hokkaido, the island of Sakhalin, and the Amur province of East Siberia. The Sakhalin Gulf[?] and Gulf of Tartary[?] connect it with the Japanese Sea on the west of the island of Sakhalin, and on the south of this island is the La Perouse Strait.

Based on an article from a well-known encyclopedia published in 1911.

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