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Strait of Tartary (Gulf of Tartary, Gulf of Tatary, Tatar Strait, Tartar Strait, Strait of Tartar, also Chinese: ???? , Japanese: , Mamiya Strait, Russian ????????? ??????, Strait of Nevelskoy) is a strait
Strait

A strait or straits is a narrow, navigable channel of water that connects two larger navigable bodies of water. It most commonly refers to a channel of water that lies between two land masses, but it may also refer to a navigable channel through a body of water that is otherwise not navigable, for example because it is too shallow, or...
 in the Pacific Ocean
Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. Its name is derived from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful sea", bestowed upon it by the Portugal explorer Ferdinand Magellan....
 dividing the Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n island of Sakhalin
Sakhalin

Sakhalin , also Saghalien, is a large elongated island in the North Pacific, lying between 45?50' and 54?24' N. It is part of Russia and is its largest island, administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast....
 from mainland Asia
Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
 (South-East Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
), connecting the Sea of Okhotsk
Sea of Okhotsk

The Sea of Okhotsk is a part of the western Pacific Ocean, lying between the Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, the island of Hokkaido to the far south, the island of Sakhalin along the west, and a long stretch of eastern Siberian coast along the west and north....
 on the north with the Sea of Japan
Sea of Japan

The Sea of Japan is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean, bordered by Japan, South Korea, North Korea and Russia. It is referred to in North Korea as the Korea East Sea and in South Korea as the East Sea....
 on the south.






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Strait of Tartary (Gulf of Tartary, Gulf of Tatary, Tatar Strait, Tartar Strait, Strait of Tartar, also Chinese: ???? , Japanese: , Mamiya Strait, Russian ????????? ??????, Strait of Nevelskoy) is a strait
Strait

A strait or straits is a narrow, navigable channel of water that connects two larger navigable bodies of water. It most commonly refers to a channel of water that lies between two land masses, but it may also refer to a navigable channel through a body of water that is otherwise not navigable, for example because it is too shallow, or...
 in the Pacific Ocean
Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. Its name is derived from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful sea", bestowed upon it by the Portugal explorer Ferdinand Magellan....
 dividing the Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n island of Sakhalin
Sakhalin

Sakhalin , also Saghalien, is a large elongated island in the North Pacific, lying between 45?50' and 54?24' N. It is part of Russia and is its largest island, administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast....
 from mainland Asia
Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
 (South-East Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
), connecting the Sea of Okhotsk
Sea of Okhotsk

The Sea of Okhotsk is a part of the western Pacific Ocean, lying between the Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, the island of Hokkaido to the far south, the island of Sakhalin along the west, and a long stretch of eastern Siberian coast along the west and north....
 on the north with the Sea of Japan
Sea of Japan

The Sea of Japan is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean, bordered by Japan, South Korea, North Korea and Russia. It is referred to in North Korea as the Korea East Sea and in South Korea as the East Sea....
 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 (?????? ???????????), in memory of Capt. Gennady Nevelskoy
Gennady Nevelskoy

Gennady Ivanovich Nevelskoy was a Russian navigator.In 1848 Nevelskoy led the expedition in the Russian Far East, exploring the area of the Sakhalin and the outlet of the Amur River....
 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
Tartary

Tartary or Great Tartary was a name used by Europeans from the Middle Ages until the twentieth century to designate a great tract of northern and central Asia stretching from the Caspian Sea and the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean inhabited by Turkic peoples and Mongols peoples of the Mongol Empire who were generically referred...
 named after the Tartar
Tartar

Tartar may refer to: *An alternate spelling of the name Tatars, an ethnic group in present-day Russia *Tartar sauce*calculus , hardened dental plaque...
s, an archaic name for various peoples of Inner Asia
Inner Asia

Inner Asia can refer to:*The western frontier lands outside China proper*Central Asia...
 and Northern Asia. In this case it refers to the various peoples of Manchuria
Manchuria

Manchuria is a historical name given to a vast geographic region in northeast Asia. Depending on the definition of its extent, Manchuria either falls entirely within People's Republic of China, or is divided between China and Russia....
, which was historically called East Tartary
East Tartary

East Tartary and Maritime Tartary are old names for Manchu territory extending from the Confluence of the River Amur with the River Ussuri to Sakhalin Island....
 in the English language.

In Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
, the strait is named after Mamiya Rinzo
Mamiya Rinzo

Mamiya Rinzo was a Japanese people Exploration of the late Edo period. Later in his life he would become an undercover agent for the Tokugawa shogunate....
, who traveled to the strait in 1808 whereof the name was introduced by Philipp Franz von Siebold
Philipp Franz von Siebold

Philipp Franz Balthasar von Siebold was a German physician. He emerged as the first European to teach Western medicine in Japan. He obtained significance for his study of Japanese flora and fauna that were endemic to the unique biotic island landscape....
 in his book Nippon: Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan (1832-54), while Russian authors prefer to name it after Admiral Gennady Nevelskoy
Gennady Nevelskoy

Gennady Ivanovich Nevelskoy was a Russian navigator.In 1848 Nevelskoy led the expedition in the Russian Far East, exploring the area of the Sakhalin and the outlet of the Amur River....
, who explored the area in 1848.

Strait of Tartary is also a poem by Walter de la Mare
Walter de la Mare

Walter John de la Mare , Order of Merit Order of the Companions of Honour was an British poetry, short story writer and British literature, probably best remembered for his works for children and "The Listeners"....
, 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, Khabarovsk Krai
Vanino, Khabarovsk Krai

Vanino is an urban-type settlement and the administrative center of Vaninsky District of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia, and an important port on the Strait of Tartary , served by the Baikal Amur Mainline railway line....
 on the mainland with Kholmsk
Kholmsk

Kholmsk is a types of settlements in Russia in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, the administrative center of Kholmsky District, Sakhalin Oblast. Population: 35,141 ....
 on Sakhalin Island. A tunnel
Sakhalin Tunnel

The Sakhalin Tunnel is an incomplete and currently postponed construction project, which after completion would connect the island of Sakhalin with mainland Russia via a tunnel of approximately 10km under the Strait of Tartary....
 under the strait, to give a road and/or rail connection between Sakhalin and the mainland, was begun under Stalin, but abandoned incomplete after his death. Renewed calls for a tunnel have been made by politicians in recent years.

See also

  • Korean Air Lines Flight 007


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