The Sea of Okhotsk (Russian: Охо́тское мо́ре, Okhotskoye More; ) is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean, lying between the Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, the island of Hokkaidō to the south, the island of Sakhalin along the west, and a long stretch of eastern Siberian coast (including the Shantar Islands) along the west and north. The northeast corner is Shelikhov Gulf. The sea is named after Okhotsk, the first Russian settlement in the Far East.
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