The Sea of Okhotsk lines the coast of Hokkaido Prefecture, the northernmost main island of Japan. Once again, the season of drift ice has arrived. The ice has traveled 1,000 kilometers from the ...

Drift ice in the Sea of Okhotsk became visible from the land for the first time this winter on Feb. 2, the Abashiri Local Meteorological Office announced.

This past winter, as in all earlier years, drift ice (also called ice floes) descended on various sections of Hokkaido’s northeastern coast facing the Sea of Okhotsk.

The drift ice is about 10 cm thick, ... First drift ice in Sea of Okhotsk. The annual arrival of ice floes is being greeted in coastal areas of Hokkaido, northern Japan.

Hundreds of ice fishermen refused rescue while drifting out to sea. Authorities reported that 374 anglers stranded on a drifting slab of sea ice declined to be rescued because they did not want to ...

Welcome to Japan’s snow-capped wonderland. A unique natural phenomenon, known as drift ice, occurs each winter on the Sea of Okhotsk, on Hokkaido’s northern shores. Ice drifts southward from ...

Sea ice formed delicate swirls of blue and white in the Sea of Okhotsk in February 2009. This image acquired by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA ...

Russia's emergency services said on Wednesday that it had rescued all 139 fishermen stranded on an ice floe drifting in the Sea of Okhotsk in the Western Pacific. Skip to main content.

Authorities said the 374 anglers had been trapped on the ice after it broke off from Russia's eastern coast, drifting a kilometre out into the Sea of Okhotsk on February 28.