Everything about Strait Of Tartary totally explained
Strait of Tartary (
Gulf of Tartary,
Gulf of Tatary,
Tatar Strait,
Tartar Strait,
Strait of Tartar, also Chinese:
韃靼海峽, Japanese:,
Mamiya Strait, Russian
Татарский пролив,
Strait of Nevelskoi) is a
strait in the
Pacific Ocean dividing the
Russian island of
Sakhalin from mainland
Asia (South-East
Russia), connecting the
Sea of Okhotsk on the north with the
Sea of Japan on the south. It is 900 km long, 4-20 m deep, and 7.3 km wide at the narrowest point.
Russian often name Strait of Tartary's narrowest point as
Strait of Nevelskoi (Пролив Невельского).
The name
Tartary named after the
Tartars, an archaic name for various peoples of
Inner Asia and
Northern Asia. In this case it refers to the various peoples of
Manchuria, which was historically called
East Tartary in the English language.
In
Japan, the strait is named after
Mamiya Rinzo, who discovered the strait in
1808 whereof the name was introduced by
Philipp Franz von Siebold in his book
Nippon: Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan (1832-54), while Russian authors prefer to name it after Admiral
Gennady Nevelskoy, who explored the area in
1848.
Strait of Tartary is also a
poem by
Walter de la Mare, in which he speaks about Tartary as a land in Asia north of China.
A reference was made to this strait in the 2003 film
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
The strait where the
Ainu tribes colonized
Sakhalin (Karafuto) from mainland Asia.
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