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La Pérouse Strait

La Pérouse Strait or Soya Strait , channel, 25 mi (40 km) wide, separating N Hokkaido island, Japan, from S Sakhalin island, Russia, and connecting the Sea of Japan on the west with the Sea of Okhotsk on the east.

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La Perouse Strait (Japanese: Sōya‐Kaikyō; Russian: Proliv Laperuza), Japan‐Russia A strait between the Japanese island of Hokkaidō and the Russian island of Sakhalin and named after Jean‐François de Galaup (1741–c.1788), Comte de la Pérouse, a French navigator who explored the Pacific Ocean and sailed through the strait in 1787.

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