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Sea Ice Vortex: Both topography and bathymetry combine with wind and sea currents to produce this pattern of sea ice in the extreme southern Sea of Okhotsk. The rugged shoreline of north Hokkaido and the Kurile Archipelago have channeled northerly winds and surface waters into a gyre here, clearly depicted in the pattern of sea ice.

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