La
Perouse Strait
La Pérouse Strait (also
Soya Strait)
is a 40 km (25 m.) wide and 20-40 m deep
strait
dividing the southern part of the
Russian
island of
Sakhalin from
the northern part of the
Japanese
island of
Hokkaido,
and connecting the
Sea
of Japan on the west with the
Sea
of Okhotsk on the east. Named after
Jean
François Galaup, Comte de La Pérouse, who discovered the channel to Europeans
in
1787.
