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1. Okhotsk () is an urban-type settlement and a seaport at the mouth of the Okhota River on the Sea of Okhotsk, in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia.
2. Okhotsk was the first Russian settlement in the Russian Far East, established in 1647.
3. Okhotsk is 800 km east southeast of Yakutsk and 5,600 km east of Moscow. (Web site)
4. Okhotsk was also a launch site of sounding rockets between 1981 and 2005.
5. The Sea of Okhotsk was a hotbed for 19th century whaling ships from the United States.

Block

1. The Neftegorsk earthquake of 27 May, 1995, supports the existance of an independent Okhotsk plate, or block, encompassing the Sea of Okhotsk.

Mission

1. On the third day of the mission the crew took photographs of Siberia to the Sea of Okhotsk in the morning and the northwestern USSR.

Whether

1. Statistical analysis of the slip vectors is used to determine whether the North American, Eurasian, or Okhotsk plate overlies the trench. (Web site)

Rotation

1. There are however, two microplates in northeast Asia, the Amurian and Okhotsk, whose existence and the sense of rotation was revised several times. (Web site)
2. However, subtle changes in block and segment geometry can cause significant changes in the estimated pole of rotation of the Okhotsk plate. (Web site)

System

1. The Sea of Okhotsk and its marginal regions represent a system of plate tectonics, climate and ecology that considerably effects the global climate.

Establishment

1. Establishment of Exclusive Economic Zones brought the Sea of Okhotsk under almost exclusively Russian jurisdiction.

Eastern Part

1. Beginning in the 1840s, American whaleships began hunting right whales in the eastern part of the Sea of Okhotsk near the Kurile Islands. (Web site)

Port Town

1. Magadan (Russian: Магада́н) is a port town on the Sea of Okhotsk and gateway to the Kolyma region. (Web site)

First Europeans

1. Russian explorers Ivan Moskvitin and Vassili Poyarkov were the first Europeans to discover the Sea of Okhotsk in the second quarter of the 17th century. (Web site)

Kodiak Island

1. A gulf in the Sea of Okhotsk, a strait between Alaska and Kodiak Island, and a town in Irkutsk Oblast in Russia bear Shelikhov's name.

Blue Sea

1. We churned onward through the pebbly sand, the blue Sea of Okhotsk to our left, huge slabs of tundra peat eroding from coastal bluffs on our right.

North American Plate

1. Whether the Sea of Okhotsk and the northern Japanese islands are part of the North American plate or of a separate Okhotsk plate has not been determined. (Web site)
2. The model with an Okhotsk plate fits the data better than one in which this region is treated as part of the North American plate. (Web site)

Philippine Sea

1. The Eastern limits of the Philippine Sea and Japan Sea and the Southeastern limit of the Sea of Okhotsk.

Pacific Coast

1. Located at the eastern end of the River Route from the Urals, Okhotsk was the first Russian settlement on the Pacific Coast.

Bowhead Whales

1. The Bowhead Whales are found in summer in the northwestern corner of the Sea of Okhotsk.

Yakutsk

1. In 1628, the Russians reached the Lena, founded the fort of Yakutsk in 1637, and two years later reached the Sea of Okhotsk at the mouth of the Ulya River.

West

1. Kamchatka encloses the Sea of Okhotsk to the west.

Frigates

1. In 1799, 3 frigates and 3 smaller ships were sent to Okhotsk under the command of Rear-Admiral I. Fomin to form a functioning military flotilla.

Area

1. Most of the Sea of Okhotsk, except for the area around the Kuril Islands, is frozen during the winter.
2. It rises in the mountains north of Okhotsk and Magadan, in the area of andempties into the East Siberian Sea, a division of the Arctic Ocean, at.

South

1. It is bounded on the north and west by the Eurasian Plate, on the northeast by the Okhotsk Plate, and on the south by the Philippine Plate.

Right Whales

1. Pelagic whalers in the 19th century hunted large numbers of right whales along the coasts of Kamchatka and in the Sea of Okhotsk.

Coast

1. After helping found Anadyrsk, in 1651 Mikhail Stadukhin went south and followed the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk from Penzhina Bay to Okhotsk. (Web site)
2. Average temperatures on the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk range from -8 °F (-22 °C) in January to 54 °F (12 °C) in July. (Web site)

Japan

1. Baird's Beaked Whale is found in the North Pacific Ocean, the Sea of Japan and the southern part of the Sea of Okhotsk.
2. It also has maritime borders with Japan (by the Sea of Okhotsk) and the United States (by the Bering Strait).

Sakhalin

1. Some of the Islands limiting the Sea of Okhotsk from the south, like Hokkaidō and Sakhalin, are very large.
2. The island of Sakhalin in the Sea of Okhotsk is a microcosm of Russo-Japanese relations. (Web site)

Russia

1. Russia reached the Pacific coast in 1647 with the establishment of Okhotsk, and consolidated its control over the Russian Far East in the 19th century.
2. Redirected from Okhotsk, Russia Okhotsk is a seaport at the mouth of the Okhota River[?] on the Sea of Okhotsk, Russia.
3. Russia lost easy access to the Sea of Okhotsk but gained the right of passage to Beijing for its trade caravans. (Web site)

Magadan

1. Economy: Magadan is a seaport town in the North-East of Russia on the coast of the sea of Okhotsk below the 60th parallel.
2. Other airports include one at Yakutsk and one at Magadan, a port city on the Sea of Okhotsk.
3. A seaport and industrial city, Magadan is located 435 km (270 mi) east of the town of Okhotsk. (Web site)

Kamchatka Peninsula

1. Sea of Okhotsk - the sea off the eastern coast of Russia; it is located south of the Kamchatka Peninsula. (Web site)
2. To the east the Sea of Okhotsk is bounded by the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Kurile Island Arc.
3. The Okhotsk Plate is a continental tectonic plate covering the Sea of Okhotsk, the Kamchatka Peninsula, and Eastern Japan.

Seas

1. Also lying in the Pacific is Sakhalin, a large island that separates the Seas of Okhotsk and Japan.

Sea

1. It lies between the Pacific Ocean to the east and the Okhotsk Sea to the west. (Web site)
2. Practically all islands in the Okhotsk Sea are either coastal islands or they belong to the Kuril island chain. (Web site)
3. Kamchatka Peninsula - a peninsula in northeastern Russia; it is south of the Bering Sea and north of the Sea of Okhotsk. (Web site)

Okhotsk

1. The Kamchatka Peninsula lies in eastern Russia between the Sea of Okhotsk to the west and the Bering Sea and Pacific ocean to the east. (Web site)
2. The eastern coastline of Russia lies on the Pacific Ocean and its seas, including the Bering Sea, the Sea of Okhotsk, and a portion of the Sea of Japan.
3. Hokkaido Island is located at the north end of Japan, near Russia, and has coastlines on the Sea of Japan, the Sea of Okhotsk, and the Pacific Ocean.

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