La Pérouse Strait

American

[lah pey-rooz streyt] / lɑ peɪˈruz ˈstreɪt /

noun

a strait between the southernmost tip of the Russian island Sakhalin and the northernmost tip of the Japanese island Hokkaido, connecting the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan. 25 miles (40 km) wide.

Etymology

Origin of La Pérouse Strait

First recorded in 1805–10; named after French naval officer and explorer Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (1742-88?)

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La Pérouse, Strait of, claimed as Russian boundary Law, in time of Ojin; criminal, protohistoric period; of Daiho; code of 1232 A.D.;

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)

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