Nemuro Strait

Nemuro Strait (Japanese: 根室海峡), also called Notsuke Strait and Kunashirsky Strait (Russian: Кунаширский пролив), is a strait separating Kunashir Island of the Kuril Islands, Russia (claimed by Japan) from the Shiretoko Peninsula, Hokkaidō, Japan.

It is located on the southeastern borders of Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, and Nemuro Subprefecture of Japan.

[2] The Japanese towns of Rausu and Shibetsu overlook the strait.

The history of this land is interwoven with the abundant natural resource; salmon.

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