Catherine's Strait
Sakhalin region, between the Sea of Okhotsk and the Pacific Ocean, Kuril ridge, Russia.
Description:
The Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Okhotsk connect the Catherine Strait. It separates the Clock Peninsula from the Lovtsov Peninsula on the island of Kunashir and is one of the largest straits of the Kuril Ridge. The strait is located in the Sakhalin region, but Japan disputes its Russian identity.
Its name, the strait received thanks to the ship "Ekaterina", which in 1792 the Russian mission went to Japan.
The length of the strait is 15 kilometers, the minimum width is 21 kilometers, and the maximum depth is more than 400 meters. The shores are not inhabited, they are rocky and steep, on them you can single out Cape Anger, Calm, Ricorda, Lovtsov and Reef.
In the strait of Catherine flows a large number of streams and rivers, the largest of them Nepretz and Filyushina. The southern and northern coasts are rich in surface and pitfalls. In the southern part of the strait there is a calm bay, and in the northern part there is a patrol bay. Near the shores of Kunashir is the walrus rock and the island of Pico.
From February to March, the waters of the strait are filled with floating ice. On the banks, the average tide is 1 meter.