is a shallow
bay
A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a ''gulf'', ''sea'', ''sound'', or ''bight''. A ''cove'' is a small, ci ...
in eastern
Hokkaido
is the list of islands of Japan by area, second-largest island of Japan and comprises the largest and northernmost prefectures of Japan, prefecture, making up its own list of regions of Japan, region. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaidō fr ...
, Japan, separated from
Nemuro Bay and the
Sea of Okhotsk
The Sea of Okhotsk; Historically also known as , or as ; ) is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean. It is located between Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on the southeast, Japan's island of Hokkaido on the sou ...
by the curving
Notsuke Peninsula
The is a peninsula on the east coast of Hokkaidō, Japan, with its northwestern base in Shibetsu and southeast tip in Betsukai. The name is derived from the Ainu for jawbone, ''notkeu'' (ノッケウ), purportedly due to the landform's visual ...
. The bay mouth has a width of some and a maximum depth of ;
most of the area of the bay has a depth of less than , making it unsuitable for the use of boats with engines.
One of the largest
seagrass
Seagrasses are the only flowering plants which grow in marine (ocean), marine environments. There are about 60 species of fully marine seagrasses which belong to four Family (biology), families (Posidoniaceae, Zosteraceae, Hydrocharitaceae and ...
beds in the country, the expanse of
eelgrass Eelgrass is a common name for several plants and may refer to:
* '' Zostera'', marine eelgrass
* '' Vallisneria'', freshwater eelgrass
See also
*'' Potamogeton compressus'', known as eel-grass pondweed
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