La Pérouse Strait
strait between Sakhalin Island and Hokkaidō, Japan
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La Pérouse Strait is a waterway that separates Sakhalin Island from Hokkaidō, Japan, connecting the Sea of Okhotsk to the Sea of Japan. It serves as an important passageway for maritime traffic between these two major bodies of water in the northwestern Pacific region.
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La Pérouse Strait (Russian: пролив Лаперуза), or Sōya Strait (Japanese: 宗谷海峡, Hepburn: Sōya Kaikyō), is a strait dividing the southern part of the Russian island of Sakhalin from the northern part of the Japanese island of Hokkaidō, and connecting the Sea of Japan on the west with the Sea of Okhotsk on the east.
The strait is 42 km (26 mi) wide and 40 to 140 m (131 to 459 ft) deep. The narrowest part of the strait is in the west between Cape Krillion in Sakhalin and Cape Sōya in Hokkaidō, which is also the shallowest at only 60 metres (197 ft) deep. A small rocky island, appropriately named Kamen Opasnosti (Russian for "Rock of Danger") is located in the Russian waters in the northeastern part of the strait, 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Cape Krillion. Another small island, Bentenjima, lies near the Japanese shore of the strait.