Strait of Tartary
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In Brief...Staff. Makarov said the results of the investigation would be open to the media. The four-engine turboprop crashed in the Tatar Strait, which separates the Russian mainland and Sakhalin Island, during a training flight late Friday. In this article: Moscow, United Nations, New York, Tu-142, New York Police Department, FBI, Vitaly Churkin, and Al-qaida |
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New Kerala | November 07, 2009
Pacific fleet suspends all naval flights, 11 missing in plane crash
...plane went down during a combat training flight around 21:19 local time (11:19 GMT) yesterday some 20 kilometers offshore in the Tatar Strait, which separates mainland Russia from the island of Sakhalin, RIA Novosti news agency reported...
In this article: Russia, Pacific, Tu-95 Bear, Tatar Strait, Sakhalin, and Far East
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washingtonpost.com | November 07, 2009
Russian military plane crashes in Pacific, 11 missing
In this article: Pacific Ocean, Vesti, Tu-154, Tu-142, Ural, Tatar Strait, and Sakhalin
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Yahoo! News | November 07, 2009
Russian military plane crashes in Pacific, 11 missing (Reuters)
...saying there was little chance of finding survivors. The anti-submarine aircraft disappeared from radar screens while flying over the Tatar Strait separating the Russian mainland from the island of Sakhalin, the ministry said on its website,...
In this article: Pacific Ocean, Vesti, Tu-154, Tu-142, Reuters, Ural, and Tatar Strait
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Wikipedia | October 26, 2009
Strait of Tartary
...Strait of Tartary connects the Sea of Okhostsk to the Sea of Japan. Strait of Tartary (Gulf of Tartary, Gulf of Tatary, Tatar Strait, Tartar Strait, Strait of Tartar, also Chinese: 韃靼海峽 , Japanese: ''', '''Mamiya Strait, Russian Татарский...
In this article: Walter de la Mare, Magadan, Sakhalin, Amur River, Gennady Nevelskoy, and Philipp Franz von Siebold
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Sea of Okhotsk
...is 11,063 feet (3,372 metres). It is connected to the Sea of Japan on either side of Sakhalin: on the west through the Sakhalin Gulf and the Gulf of Tartary; on the south, through the La Perouse Strait. In winter, navigation on the Sea of...
In this article: Okhotsk, Sea, Sakhalin, Hokkaido, Korean Air Flight 007, Revenue, and Ivan Moskvitin
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Sovetskaya Gavan
Sovetskaya Gavan (, lit. Soviet Harbor) is a town in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia, and a port on the Strait of Tartary which connects the Sea of Okhotsk on the north with the Sea of Japan on the south. Population: 29,100 (2008 est.) ; The name...
In this article: Sovetskaya Gavan, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russian-American Company, Gennady Nevelskoy, Nicholas I, and Grand Duke Constantine
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Geology of Japan
...plates, being deeper than the Eurasian plate, pulled Japan eastward, opening the Sea of Japan around 15 million years ago. The Strait of Tartary and the Korea Strait opened much later. Japan is situated in a volcanic zone on the...
In this article: Japan, 2004 Chuetsu Earthquake, Pacific Ring of Fire, Korea Strait, and Asia
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Amur Liman
The Strait of Tartary connects the Sea of Okhostsk to the Sea of Japan. The Amur Liman is a liman of the Amur River, the northern part of the Strait of Tartary between Eurasia and Sakhalin. It connects the Sakhalin Gulf of the Sea of...
In this article: Amur River, Sakhalin, and Sakhalin Gulf
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Gennady Nevelskoy
...years earlier, the Russians took Nevelskoy's report as the first proof that Sakhalin is indeed an island. They renamed Gulf of Tartary, Strait of Tartary, and named the northernmost, narrowest section of the strait, which connects the strait's...
In this article: Gennady Nevelskoy, Amur River, Sakhalin, Mamiya Rinzo, and Nikolayevsk-on-Amur
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Nevelskoy Strait
The Nevelskoy Strait () is a strait between Eurasia and Sakhalin that connects the main body of the Strait of Tartary with the Amur Liman (Amur River estuary). It was named in memory of Capt. Gennady Nevelskoy who in 1849 discovered that...
In this article: Gennady Nevelskoy, Amur River, and Sakhalin
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Strait of Tartary (Gulf of Tartary, Gulf of Tatary, Tatar Strait, Tartar Strait, Strait of Tartar, also Chinese: 韃靼海峽 , Japanese: 間宮海峡, Mamiya Strait, Russian Татарский пролив, Strait of Nevelskoy) is a strait in the Pacific Ocean dividing the Russian island of Sakhalin from mainland Asia (South-East Russia), connecting the Sea of Okhotsk on the north with the Sea of Japan on the south. It is 900 km long, 4-20 m deep, and 7.3 km wide at the narrowest point.
On Russian maps, Strait of Tartary's narrowest point is called Strait of Nevelskoy (Пролив Невельского), in memory of Capt. Gennady Nevelskoy who discovered that the strait of Tartary is connected with the estuary of the Amur River and thus is in fact a strait, and not a gulf.
The name Tartary named after the Tartars, an archaic name for various peoples of Inner Asia and Northern Asia. In this case it refers to the various peoples of Manchuria, which was historically called East Tartary in the English language.
In Japan, the strait is named after Mamiya Rinzo, who traveled to the strait in 1808 whereof the name was introduced by Philipp Franz von Siebold in his book Nippon: Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan (1832-54), while Russian authors prefer to name it after Admiral Gennady Nevelskoy, who explored the area in 1848.
Strait of Tartary is also a poem by Walter de la Mare, in which he speaks about Tartary as a land in Asia north of China.
Now-a-days, a rail ferry operates across the strait, connecting the port of Vanino on the mainland with Kholmsk on Sakhalin Island.
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