Sub-Arctic operations in the Russo-Japanese War, 1904–1905

• Published in: Polar Record
• Main Author: Stone, Ian R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2014
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Arctic; Kamchatka Peninsula; Arctic Island; Kamchatka; Polar Record; Sakhalin
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247414000655; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247414000655

ABSTRACT This note concerns the little known sub-Arctic operations in the Russo-Japanese war, 1904–1905. Apart from a slightly farcical ‘invasion’ of the Kamchatka peninsula by a group of Japanese fishermen, and a naval engagement off the coast of southern Sakhalin, the main operations related to th...