Diana Strait
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Diana Strait (Russian: Script error: No such module "lang".; Japanese: Script error: No such module "lang".) is a deep strait that separates the islands of Ketoy and Simushir in the Kuril Islands, Russia. It is 16.1 km (about 10 mi) wide. The flood tidal current in the strait sets northwest, while the ebb flows to the southeast. These currents may reach up to three knots.[1]
History
American whaleships in the 1840s and 1850s occasionally used the strait to enter[2] and exit[3] the Sea of Okhotsk on their way to and from cruises for bowhead and right whales.
References
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- ↑ National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. (2014). Sailing Directions (Enroute): East Coast of Russia. U.S. Government, Springfield, Virginia.
- ↑ Nassau, of New Bedford, 16 May 1855, Old Dartmouth Historical Society (ODHS).
- ↑ Liverpool 2nd, of New Bedford, 24 September 1848, Nicholson Whaling Collection; Good Return, of New Bedford, 26 September 1854, ODHS.
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