The history of oceanographic investigations in the Sea of Okhotsk from the seventeenth century to the present


Investigations of the Sea of Okhotsk began in the 17th century with journeys by Russian cossacks and explorers who visited its southern and eastern shores. Expeditions in the 18th century discovered more than twenty of the Kurile Islands. As an emerging maritime power, the Russian Empire continued to organize naval explorations: the first and second Kamchatka expeditions led by V. I. Bering, the circumnavigation by I. F. Krusenstern and Yu. F. Lisiansky, and the expeditions by G. I. Nevelskoi, F. P. Litke, S. O. Makarov, and others. The most productive studies of the Sea of Okhotsk took place during the 20th century with the establishment of regional and central specialized institutes for hydrographic and meteorological research, and they continue up to the present day.

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, The history of oceanographic investigations in the Sea of Okhotsk from the seventeenth century to the present, Voprosy Istorii Estestvoznaniia i Tekhniki [Studies in History of Science and Technology], , p.  56-66

     
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