Kuril Strait

Shumshu Island is at center and Cape Lopatk at the bottom left. The Kuril Strait is at the Southwest point of the island between the two landforms.

First Kuril Strait (Russian: пролив Первый Курильский, Japanese: 占守海峡, Shumushu Strait) (also known as just Kuril Strait) is a strait separating the Shumshu Island of the Kuril Islands from the Cape Lopatka, Kamchatka Peninsula.[1]

References

  1. ^ "Kuril Strait". Sailing Directions for the East Coast of Siberia, Mys Otto Shmidta to Sakhalinskiy Zaliv Including Ostrov Vrangelya, Second Edition. United States. Naval Oceanographic Office. 1952. p. 173.

See also

50°50′08″N 156°35′05″E / 50.8355556°N 156.5847222°E / 50.8355556; 156.5847222
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