- This ecoregion covers the majority of Sakhalin, a 948 km-long island separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the Sea of Japan in the far east of Russia.
- Sakhalin is Russia's largest island, washed by the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan, separated from the Asian coast by the Tatar Strait.
- Diving in Sakhalin Island – The water might not be the warmest, but Sakhalin offers some amazing diving opportunities for the intrepid.
- A storehouse of natural resources, an island with unique flora and fauna – all this is beautiful and contradictory Sakhalin.
- Sakhalin is the largest island of the Russian Federation being 948 km long and 26 to 160 km wide. It lies at the easternmost borders of the country...
- Sakhalin Island is located just north of Japan and east of the Khabarovski and Primorski Krai of the Russian Far East.
- When the island was under Russian control, it served as a penal colony. Find out why in "Sakhalin - The Island of Unspoken Struggles."
- At the end of the late Pleistocene, Sakhalin was connected with the mainland and the island of Hokkaido by land bridges (Figure 18.3).
- Photos from Sakhalin. This large island just north of Japan and off the east coast of Russia has led to many bitter disputes between the two countries.
- In 1890 great Russian writer Anton Chekhov spent three months at the Sakhalin Island interviewing thousands of convicts and settlers for a census.