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Which explorer sailed across the Sea of Okhotsk in 1787?

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Vertical physical map showing the seas of Japan and Okhotsk, highlighting underwater basins, trenches, and ridges, as well as the coastlines and boundaries of Russia, China, North Korea, South Korea, and Japan. Major cities, islands, and peninsulas such as Vladivostok, Tokyo, Hokkaido, Sakhalin, Kamchatka Peninsula, and the Kuril Islands are labeled. Water depths are indicated with color shading, and an inset locator map shows the region's position in East Asia.
Sea of Okhotsk

In 1787, the French navigator Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, sailed across the Sea of Okhotsk to the Kamchatka Peninsula after traveling northward through the strait that was subsequently named for him.1