Talk:Sakhalin

Moved from article

Moved fr. article

Initial text from 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. Please update as needed.

Finish mv

--Menchi 04:40, Jul 31, 2003 (UTC)

I deleted the last sentence of the opening paragraph, "Now, the opinion which should return Karafuto (Sakhalin) and the Chishima Islands to Japan and to carry out is also the world," as it seems like a poorly translated tag to the paragraph--TKE

Western Gray Whale

A very small point, but I didn't want to make a change since a hyperlink is involved, but according to the IUCN, the subpopulation of the Western Gray Whale that feeds off the coast of the island has rebounded sufficiently to be moved from the "critically endangered" list to the "endangered" list. Amocito0113 (talk) 15:45, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

Unactioned hidden text

The following was left in the article as hidden text by User:Geographyinitiative four years ago (original locations can be seen here), and has not been actioned since.

in defiance of the Qing and Japanese claims (hidden because this is not in the source, nor is it clear that their actions were a "defiance" unless we have a source explaining that)

including Sakhalin (the pages for Treaty of Aigun and Convention of Peking do not include the word Sakhalin)

Please address if possible. BD2412 T 01:46, 23 September 2024 (UTC)

Japanese name

Shouldn't the Japanese name of Sakhalin be added to this article? Ömereditss (talk) 23:47, 5 July 2025 (UTC)

Issues with the "Division along 50th parallel" section

This section is very hard to read and rehashes a lot from the Russo-Japanese rivalry section right above it, mainly about the initial Russian exploration and colonization of the island.

Additionally, many of the hyperlinks go to Russian or Japanese Wikis, and there seems to be an unnecessary amount of Russian written in Cyrillic in this section. Illgoik (talk) 22:48, 9 April 2026 (UTC)