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1. Strait Of Tartary

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   European Discovery
   Although known to Chinese and indigenous peoples for millennia, European knowledge of the strait was formalized following significant maritime exploration in the 18th century. The French explorer Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse charted its southern extent in 1787, initially believing Sakhalin to be part of the Asian mainland. The strait was definitively proven to separate Sakhalin from the mainland by the Russian explorer Adam Johann von Krusenstern in 1805, es…