The Shantar Sea () is a small coastal sea in the northwestern

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 ...

. It is bounded to the north by Bolshoy Shantar Island, to the east by Malyy Shantar Island, and to the south by Tugur Bay.

History

The sea was frequented by American whaleships hunting

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s between 1853 and 1874.''Florida'', of Fairhaven, Aug. 1, Sep. 17-20, 1853, Old Dartmouth Historical Society (ODHS); ''Sea Breeze'', of New Bedford, Aug. 12-14, 1874, G. W. Blunt White Library (GBWL).

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s from Mamga also cruised for bowheads in the sea from 1865 to 1871.Lindholm, O. V., Haes, T. A., & Tyrtoff, D. N. (2008). ''Beyond the frontiers of imperial Russia: From the memoirs of Otto W. Lindholm''. Javea, Spain: A. de Haes OWL Publishing.

References

Bodies of water of the Sea of Okhotsk Seas of Asia Seas of the Pacific Ocean Seas of Russia Shantar Islands Bodies of water of Khabarovsk Krai Pacific Coast of Russia {{KhabarovskKrai-geo-stub