La Pérouse Strait
Meanings
name
- A strait dividing the Russian island of Sakhalin in the north from the Japanese island of Hokkaido, and connecting the Sea of Japan on the west with the Sea of Okhotsk on the east.
Word forms
Etymology
After Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, its discoverer.
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