Talk:Sea of Okhotsk

Edited section on the "sea freezing" because there were some incorrect implications and statements in it. 1) The sea never freezes in the sense of freezing solid. It becomes covered with ice floes. 2) Icebergs are mountain-shaped chunks of ice broken loose from ice shelves. This is not what covers the sea of Okhotsk... it becomes covered with large, flat ice floes. 3) According to automated monitoring sites on the internet, the whole of the sea does not freeze. Rather, floes form in the north part, break loose, and drift southward. Usually the sea is only partially covered, and the cover is mobile.

Traditional Japanese name

I removed the claim that the traditional Japanese name of the sea was Hokkai. I checked reliable Japanese dictionaries (Kōjien and Daijirin) but none of them say that the word hokkai specificly referred to the body of water between Kuril and Sakhalin. Also, as old as in the official translation of Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1875) (s:ja:千島樺太兩島交換條約), the sea was referred to only by the Russian word. If the sea had a Japanese name, it should be written in kanji like Kuril Islands (千島群島), Sakhalin Island (樺太島) or Saint Petersburg (此特堡府) in the treaty. --Sushiya (talk) 00:59, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Name

This sea is named after Okhota River. The right name is Sea of Okhota.--95.69.130.14 (talk) 00:10, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

Notable Ports: Yuzhno Sakhalinsk

Yuzhno Sakhalinsk is not a sea-port, it lies inland with no connection to the sea. The nearest sea-port is Khorsakov about 40 km south of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. 84.212.138.57 (talk) 20:20, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Moved this content from the Notable ports section. imars (talk) 15:09, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

References

bathymetric map

The interesting map labeled "Depths" needs to specify the units being used. If one opens the linked page File:Okhotsk.gif, it is no longer clear that it a bathymetric map.

The link to a page from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the U.S. of A. does not work. However it should be noted the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the U.S. of A. usually uses fathoms, but I was not able to confirm this for this particular case. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.206.40.4 (talk) 20:47, 4 January 2011 (UTC)