Sea of Okhotsk

Meaning

Proper Noun

• 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.

Origin

• Named after Okhotsk, the first Russian settlement in the Far East.