Most of the Sea of Okhotsk, except for the area around the Kuril Islands, is frozen during the winter. Aside from offshore islands, the only island is the remote, tiny St Jonas ("Ostrov Svyatovy Iony"). In the summer, the icebergs melt and the sea becomes navigable again.
In the Japanese language, the sea was traditionally called Hokkai (北海), or "north sea." However, because this term is now used to refer to the North Sea in Europe, the name has changed to Ohotsukukai (オホーツク海), a transliteration of the Russian name.
Sea of Okhotsk, (Russian Okhotskoye More), northwest arm of the Pacific Ocean.
Covering an area of 1,528,000 sq km (590,000 sq mi), it is bounded on the east by Kamchatka Peninsula Peninsula, on the southeast by the Kuril Islands, on the southwest by the Japanese island of Hokkaidō, and on the west by the island of Sakhalin and the far eastern coast of Russia.
The sea, rich in marine life, freezes over during the winter months and is frequently covered with fog.
Okhotsk (and#1054;and#1093;and#1086;and#769;and#1090;and#1089;and#1082;) is a townlet and seaport at the mouth of the Okhota River on the Sea of Okhotsk, Russia.
The North Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located between the coasts of Norway and Denmark in the east, the coast of the British Isles in the west, and the German, Dutch, Belgian and French coasts in the south.
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