Terpeniya Bay

The Gulf of Patience, known in Ainu as Taraika, indents the southeastern coast of Sakhalin. The long Patience Peninsula partly shelters it from the Sea of Okhotsk, and the Poronay River enters from the north. Salmon frequent its waters, which freeze in winter. In 1643 the Dutch navigator Maarten de Vries reached the bay and gave it the name that recalls the patience required to wait out the weather.