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🔆Sea of Okhotsk

✅The Sea of Okhotsk is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean.
✅It is located between Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, Japan’s island of Hokkaido on the south, the island of Sakhalin along the west, and a stretch of eastern Siberian coast along the west and north.
✅ Kuril Islands
✅The Kuril Islands are stretched from the Japanese island of Hokkaido to the southern tip of Russia’s the Kamchatka Peninsula separating the Okhotsk Sea from the North Pacific ocean.
✅ It consists of 56 islands and minor rocks.
✅ The chain is part of the belt of geologic instability circling the Pacific and contains at least 100 volcanoes, of which 35 are still active, and many hot springs.
✅ Earthquakes and tidal waves are common phenomena over these islands.

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🔆Sea of Okhotsk

✅The Sea of Okhotsk is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean.
✅It is located between Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, Japan’s island of Hokkaido on the south, the island of Sakhalin along the west, and a stretch of eastern Siberian coast along the west and north.
✅ Kuril Islands
✅The Kuril Islands are stretched from the Japanese island of Hokkaido to the southern tip of Russia’s the Kamchatka Peninsula separating the Okhotsk Sea from the North Pacific ocean.
✅ It consists of 56 islands and minor rocks.
✅ The chain is part of the belt of geologic instability circling the Pacific and contains at least 100 volcanoes, of which 35 are still active, and many hot springs.
✅ Earthquakes and tidal waves are common phenomena over these islands.

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