Okhotsk Sea of

O·khotsk

 (ō-kŏtsk′, ə-KHôtsk′), Sea of

An arm of the northwest Pacific Ocean west of the Kamchatka Peninsula and Kuril Islands. It is connected with the Sea of Japan by narrow straits.

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