Sakhalin facts for kids
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 Location in Russia
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| Location | Russian Far East, Pacific Ocean |
| Coordinates | 45°50' 54°24' N |
| Area rank | 23rd |
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| Population | 673,100 |
Sakhalin (Russian: Сахали́н Japanese: Karafuto (樺太) or Saharin (サハリン); Chinese: 庫頁/库页 Kùyè or 薩哈林/萨哈林 Sàhālín), also known as Saghalien, is a large, long Russian island in the North Pacific, placed between 45°50' and 54°24' N. It is part of Russia territory and is its largest island, administered as part of Sakhalin Oblast. The indigenous peoples of the island are the Sakhalin Ainu, Oroks, and Nivkhs. Most Ainu relocated to Hokkaidō when Japanese were gone from the island in 1949.
Sakhalin is the subject of a whole book by Anton Chekhov (1895), reprinted in many Russian editions of his collected works. It has been translated into English. Of other old books, there is an interesting one by an Englishman, Charles H. Hawes, To the Uttermost East. (N.Y.: Scribner;s, 1904). Now, however, the island is experiencing an oil boom.
Images for kids
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Historical extent of the Ainu people
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De Vries (1643) mapped Sakhalin's eastern promontories without realising that he had visited an island (map from 1682).
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French map from 1821 showing Sakhalin as part of Qing Empire
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Mamiya Rinzō described Sakhalin as an island in his map
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earlier work]] by d'Anville, who in his turn made use of the information collected by Jesuits in 1709, asserts the existence of Sakhalin – but only assigns to it the northern half of the island and its northeastern coast (with Cape Patience, discovered by de Vries in 1643). Cape Aniva, also discovered by de Vries, and Cape Crillon (Black Cape) are, however, thought to form part of the mainland
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La Perouse charted most of the southwestern coast of Sakhalin (or "Tchoka", as he heard natives call it) in 1787
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1823 Japanese map of Karafuto and part of eastern Siberia (modern Khabarovsk Krai)
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Anton Chekhov museum in Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky, Russia. It is the house where he stayed in Sakhalin during 1890.
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Settler's way of life. Near church at holiday. 1903
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Sakhalin Island with Karafuto Prefecture highlighted
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Central part of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, 2009
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Nivkh children in Sakhalin c. 1903
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Western Gray whale near Sakhalin
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Anaphalis margaritacea with peacock butterfly
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At the ceremony marking the opening of a liquefied natural gas production plant built as part of the Sakhalin-2 project
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Sakhalin and its surroundings.
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Velikan Cape, Sakhalin
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Zhdanko Mountain Ridge
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A passenger train in Nogliki
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A Japanese D51 steam locomotive outside the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Railway Station
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See also
In Spanish: Isla de Sajalín para niños
