Aleksandrovskiy Bay

This bay lies on the western coast of Sakhalin, facing the mainland across the Strait of Tartary. Its coast was part of a network of Indigenous exchange linking the island with the lower Amur. In 1787 the French expedition of La Pérouse sailed along the coast and named the inlet Jonquière Bay. Local Ainu and Nivkh knowledge helped European visitors understand a coast whose channels and straits remained unfamiliar to them.