La Pérouse Strait
La Pérouse Strait or the Sōya Strait is a strait dividing the southern part of the Russian island of Sakhalin (Karafuto) from the northern part of the Japanese island of Hokkaidō, and connecting the Sea of Japan on the west with the Sea of Okhotsk on the east.
The strait is 42 km (26 miles) long and 40 to 140 m (130 to 460 ft) deep. The narrowest part of the strait is in the west between Russia's Cape Krillion and Japan's Cape Soya, which is also the shallowest at only 60 meters deep. A small rocky island, appropriately named Kamen Opasnosti (Russian for "Rock of Danger") is located in the Russian waters in the northeastern part of the strait, 8 miles southeast of the Cape Krillion. Another small island, Bentenjima, lies near the Japanese shore of the strait.
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Origin
The strait is named after Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, who explored it in 1787.
Shipping
Japan's territorial waters extend to three nautical miles into La Pérouse Strait instead of the usual twelve, reportedly to allow nuclear-armed United States Navy warships and submarines to transit the strait without violating Japan's prohibition against nuclear weapons in its territory.
Between 1848 and 1892, American whaleships passed through the strait in the spring and summer as they made their way from the right whale grounds in the Sea of Japan to the Sea of Okhotsk to hunt right and bowhead whales.
Open Water Swimming
Russian Alexander Brylin is organizing the International Swim across the La Perouse Channel in September 2019. The International Swim across La Perouse Channel is a 42 km ocean swim between Sakhalin, Russia and Hokkaido, Japan across La Pérouse Strait or the Sōya Strait, a strait dividing the southern part of the Russian island of Sakhalin from the northern part of the Japanese island of Hokkaidō that connects the Sea of Japan on the west with the Sea of Okhotsk on the east.
International Swim Across La Perouse Channel Members
- Andrei Khapochkin (Russia) organizer
- Aleksandr Bolotnikov (Russia) organizer
- Alekandr Brylin (Russia) organizer
- Iaroslav Brylin (Russia) swimmer
- Viktoriia Brylina (Russia) secretariat
- Serapfim Priest (Russia) swimmer
- Svetlana Kositsina (Russia) swimmer
- Valerii Kuchinskii (Russia) swimmer
- Yang Shengchun (China) swimmer
- Dr. Nataliya Fatyanova (Russia) physician
- Tatiana Alexandrova (Russia) swimmer
- Dr. Irina Zhidkova (Russia) physician
- Andrei Agarkov (Russia) swimmer
- Andrei Mikhalev (Russia) swimmer
- Viktoriia Mikhaleva (Russia) secretariat
- Valentin Sokolov (Russia) translator
- Pavel Seleznev (Aspol) organizer
- Vladimir Skoropupov (Aspol) organizer
- Justin Arnaud Coetzee (South Africa) swimmer
- Timofei Sviatov (Russia) swimmer
- Masayuki Moriya (Japan) swimmer
- Tomonari Ogino (Japan) swimmer
- Andrei Ershov (Russia) rescue swimmer
- Oksana Eletskaia (Russia) swimmer
- Tatiana Gavrilenkova (Russia) swimmer
- Dr. Gennadii Sim (Russia) physician
- Aleksandr Nazin (Russia) media representative
- Aleksander Svinin (Russia) swimmer
- Alexander Konovalov (Russia) rescue swimmer
- Ivan Kazakov (Russia) swimmer
- Victor Fade (Russia) swimmer
- Igor Belanov (Russia) swimmer
- Semen Iarochkin (Russia) swimmer
- Oleg Chekushkin (Russia) swimmer
- Nikolay Petshak (Russia) swimmer
- Dmitrii Pomelov (Russia) rescue swimmer
- Aleksander Iurkov (Russia) swimmer
- Eduard Orlov (Russia) swimmer
- Aleksey Zhdanov (Russia) swimmer
- Shinya Hosokawa (Japan) media representative
- Ekaterina Bushueva (Russia) media representative
- Artem Meleshko (Russia) swimmer
- Evgenii Shevchenko (Russia) swimmer
External links
- Tsugaru Channel Swimmers Don't Need One More Thing To Worry About
- Friendship Swim Across La Perouse Strait From Japan To Russia
- Sights From The Two-stage Russia-to-Japan Swim
- Swimming La Pérouse Channel
- Two-stage Russia-to-Japan Swim With Alexander Brylin
- World Open Water Swimming Association
- International Swim Across The La Pérouse Channel
- Recruiting Qualified Swimmers To Swim From Sakhalin
- Sport, You Are Now The World - From Russia To Japan
- Swims In Russia, China, Tibet, Japan With Alexander Brylin