Tsushima Strait
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The Tsushima Strait is a passage in the Korea Strait, located between the southern coast of the Korean peninsula and the Japanese islands of Kyushu and Honshu. This strait is bisected by the Tsushima islands, creating an eastern passage often referred to as the Tsushima Strait and a western channel formerly known as the Chosen Strait.1
A significant historical event that occurred in this strait was the Battle of Tsushima in 1905, during the Russo-Japanese War, where the Japanese fleet decisively defeated a Russian force. The warm Tsushima Current, a branch of the Kuroshio Current, flows north through the strait.12
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…being often referred to as Tsushima Strait. The western channel was formerly called the Chōsen Strait.
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Sea of JapanPhysiography…to the south by the Tsushima and Korea straits and from the Sea of Okhotsk to the north by the La Perouse (or Sōya) and Tatar straits. To the east it is also connected with the Inland Sea of Japan by the Kanmon Strait and to the Pacific by the…
Read More…to the south by the Tsushima and Korea straits and from the Sea of Okhotsk to the north by the La Perouse (or Sōya) and Tatar straits. To the east it is also connected with the Inland Sea of Japan by the Kanmon Strait and to the Pacific by the…
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