Hokkaido University is comprised of faculties, graduate schools, institute, and centers. The main campus of the university is situated from kita 6-jo to 24-jo and from Nishi 5-chome to 16-chome in Kita-ku, in the northwestern part of Sapporo.

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In winter, the Sea of Okhotsk is generally almost entirely covered with sea ice from late November to late May. Even in the southernmost part of the sea, along the northeastern sea coast of Hokkaido, the sea in general starts to freeze at early January and is covered with sea ice till late March. In the coastal regions off Hokkaido unstable ice pack found were, some consisting of drift ice from ...