GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF FAR EASTERN SEAS 



683 



complex formation, some hundreds of kilometres wide (Fig. 325). It does not 

 consist merely of a mountainous range of islands (the Kuril bank is a double 



Fig. 324. Sea-bed relief of the Sea of Okhotsk and the Kuril-Kamchatka 

 trench (Udintzev). 



formation — the western range with summits above water and the submarine 

 eastern range, the ' Vityaz'). The southern hollow of the Sea of Okhotsk is 

 adjacent to the range of islands to the west; to the east of it lies the trench and 

 elevation of the plateau edge. This mountainous formation can be regarded 



