While searching for oil off this island's coast, Exxon drilled the world's longest borehole in 2011.
While searching for oil off this island's coast, Exxon drilled the world's longest borehole in 2011. After visiting a prison colony on this island, Anton Chekhov wrote his only work of non-fiction, a sociological piece criticizing the penal system. In 1983, Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was accidentally shot down off this island's western shore by the (*) Soviet Union. This island lies east of the Strait of Tartary and north of the La Pérouse Strait. Its city of Korsakov was rebuilt as the city of Ōtomari after this island was divided in two by the Treaty of Portsmouth. The Soviet Union reclaimed this island's southern half from Japan in the last days of World War II, along with the nearby Kuril Islands. For 10 points, name this large Russian island north of Hokkaidō.
While searching for oil off this island's coast, Exxon drilled the world's longest borehole in 2011.
Sakhalin [or Karafuto]