A long Russian island in the northwest Pacific, off the east coast of Siberia, with oil and gas fields, taiga forests, and a Japanese colonial past.
Geography
Sakhalin stretches about 948 km from north to south. It is separated from mainland Russia by the narrow Tatar Strait and from Hokkaido by the La Perouse Strait. The island has a long, narrow, mountainous form.
History
Japan and Russia disputed Sakhalin throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. After 1905 the southern half was Japanese as Karafuto Prefecture until Soviet forces took it in 1945.
Oil and Gas
Sakhalin’s offshore oil and gas fields, developed since the 1990s in partnerships with foreign majors, supply liquefied natural gas to Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan from the Prigorodnoye plant.
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