Severo-Vostochnyy Strait ( Russian: ''Proliv Severo-Vostochnyy'' or "Northeast Strait") is a strait located in the western

Sea of Okhotsk The Sea of Okhotsk ( rus, Охо́тское мо́ре, Ohótskoye móre ; ja, オホーツク海, Ohōtsuku-kai) is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean. It is located between Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands ...

. It separates

Bolshoy Shantar Island Bolshoy Shantar ( rus, Большо́й Шантар, r=Bol'shoy Shantar, Big Shantar, p=bɐlʲˈʂoj ʂɐnˈtar) is the main island of the Shantar Islands in the Sea of Okhotsk, Russia; its area is and it measures about . It has a large bracki ...

to the north from

Malyy Shantar Island Maly Shantar Island (russian: Остров Малый Шантар ''Ostrov Maly Shantar'') is a small, narrow island in the northwestern Sea of Okhotsk, one of the Shantar Islands. Geography Maly Shantar or Little Shantar Island is about 19 ...

to the south. It is divided in two by several rocks that rise to 15 to 18 m (50 to 60 ft) and has reefs extending from both sides. It also has swift tidal currents, with the flood setting to the west and the ebb to the east.United States. (1918). ''Asiatic Pilot, Volume 1: East coast of Siberia, Sakhalin Island and Chosen''. Washington: Hydrographic Office.

History

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boat crews searching for

bowhead whale The bowhead whale (''Balaena mysticetus'') is a species of baleen whale belonging to the family Balaenidae and the only living representative of the genus ''Balaena''. They are the only baleen whale endemic to the Arctic and subarctic waters, ...

s sometimes used the strait, though the

ships A ship is a large watercraft that travels the world's oceans and other sufficiently deep waterways, carrying cargo or passengers, or in support of specialized missions, such as defense, research, and fishing. Ships are generally distinguished ...

themselves seldom entered it. They called it ''Rocky Passage''.''Carolina'', of New Bedford, August 20, 1858, Old Dartmouth Historical Society.

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Straits of Russia Bodies of water of the Sea of Okhotsk Bodies of water of Khabarovsk Krai {{KhabarovskKrai-geo-stub