Okhotsk

American  

[oh-kotsk, uh-khawtsk] / oʊˈkɒtsk, ʌˈxɔtsk /

noun

1. Sea of Okhotsk, an arm of the North Pacific Ocean enclosed by the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Kurile Islands, Sakhalin, and the Russian Federation in Asia. 582,000 square miles (1,507,380 square kilometers); greatest depth, 10,554 feet (3,217 meters).

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Okhotsk British  

/ aˈɔxtsk, ˈəʊkɒtsk /

noun

1. part of the NW Pacific, surrounded by the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Kurile Islands, Sakhalin Island, and the E coast of Siberia. Area: 1 589 840 sq km (613 838 sq miles)

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Etymology

Origin of Okhotsk

First recorded in 1815–20; from Russian Okhótsk, equivalent to Okhot(a) the name of a river, probably from Evenki (Lamut) okat “river” + -sk, Russian noun suffix used in placenames

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Okhotsk

According to Dr Shpak, Andruha/Hvaldimir had first been captured in 2013 in the Sea of Okhotsk in Russia's Far East.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2024

Some places actually saw algal blooms weaken over time, including the California Current, parts of the northeastern North Atlantic and the Okhotsk Sea in the North Pacific.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 2, 2023

Dozens of Indigenous knowledge keepers, leaders and fishers from around the Salish Sea, Southeast Alaska and the Sea of Okhotsk gathered at the zoo over the weekend.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2022

The ministry did not specify the route, but a flight path over the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea would have passed close to Japan and the United States.

From Reuters ● Oct. 18, 2022

Navy divers, or "frogmen," used a mini-submarine to place a "pod" on an important Soviet underwater communications cable in the Sea of Okhotsk, north of Japan and near the eastern coast of the Soviet Union.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau