Aniva Bay (

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: Залив Анива (''Zaliv Aniva''),

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: 亜庭湾, Aniwa Bay, or Aniva Gulf) is located at the southern end of

Sakhalin Island Sakhalin ( rus, Сахали́н, r=Sakhalín, p=səxɐˈlʲin; ja, 樺太 ''Karafuto''; zh, c=, p=Kùyèdǎo, s=库页岛, t=庫頁島; Manchu: ᠰᠠᡥᠠᠯᡳᠶᠠᠨ, ''Sahaliyan''; Orok: Бугата на̄, ''Bugata nā''; Nivkh: ...

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, north of the island of

Hokkaidō is Japan's second largest island and comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture, making up its own region. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaidō from Honshu; the two islands are connected by the undersea railway Seikan Tunnel. The la ...

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. The largest city on the bay is Korsakov.

Ecology

The bay has received news coverage because the

Sakhalin-II The Sakhalin-2 (russian: Сахалин-2) project is an oil and gas development in Sakhalin Island, Russia. It includes development of the Piltun-Astokhskoye oil field and the Lunskoye natural gas field offshore Sakhalin Island in the Okhotsk ...

led energy consortium has been accused of significant environmental violations and dumping dredging in the bay. This received attention from environmental groups, namely Sakhalin Environment Watch, and the harm the dredging is doing to the native wildlife. Significant fish and crab kills have occurred, and salmon in the bay have been affected. File:RIAN archive 400844 Large-scale Russian-Japanese exercise in Sakhalin to prevent criminal activity at sea.jpg, A coast guard patrol vessel and border guard aircraft of the Russian Federal Security Service took part in the Russian-Japanese exercise in Aniva Bay to practice halting criminal activity at sea, ship and people rescue operations.

References

* Bays of Sakhalin Oblast Bays of the Sea of Okhotsk {{SakhalinOblast-geo-stub