This list of straits is an appendix to the article strait . For "Strait of.." or for "The.. " see the first letter of the word which follows the article.
Strait | Location |
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Agate Pass | Port Madison and mainland Kitsap County in Puget Sound |
Agattu Strait | Attu Island and Agattu Island in the Alaskan Aleutians |
Akashi Strait | Honshu and Awaji |
Alas Strait | Lombok and Sumbawa |
Alor Strait | Lesser Sunda Islands |
Amchitka Pass | the Rat Islands group to the west and the Delarof Islands to the east within the Alaskan Aleutians |
Anegada Passage | the Virgin Islands and Anguilla |
Anguilla Channel | Anguilla and Saint Martin |
Arthur Kill | Staten Island and New Jersey |
Augusta's Strait | Dampier Strait (Indonesia), between the Raja Ampat islands of Waigeo and Batanta, province of West Papua |
Strait | Location |
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Cabot Strait | Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island |
Caicos Passage | Turks and Caicos Islands and the Bahamas |
Strait of Canso | Cape Breton Island and mainland Nova Scotia |
Carquinez Strait | San Pablo Bay and Suisun Bay, California |
Cebu Strait (a.k.a. Bohol Strait) | Bohol and Cebu |
Chatham Strait | Chichagof Island and Admiralty Island, Alaska |
Chios Strait | Turkey and Chios |
Clarence Strait | Prince of Wales Island and mainland Alaska |
Coco Channel | Coco Islands and the North Andaman Island |
Colvos Passage | Puget Sound| |
Cook Strait | New Zealand, between the North Island and the South Island |
Straits of Corfu | Corfu and mainland Greece/Albania |
Cozumel Channel | Cozumel Island and the Yucatán Peninsula |
Cross Sound | Chichagof Island to its south and the mainland to its north, of Alaska |
Cumberland Sound | Baffin Island's Hall Peninsula and the Cumberland Peninsula, in Canada |
Strait | Location |
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East River | Manhattan, the Bronx and Long Island |
Eastern Channel | Korean Peninsula and the Iki Island |
English Channel | Great Britain and France |
Euripus Strait | the Island of Euboea and the Greek mainland on the Aegean |
Strait | Location |
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Falkland Sound | West Falkland and East Falkland |
Fehmarn Belt | Fehmarn and Lolland |
Fehmarn Sound | Fehmarn and the German mainland |
Fisher Strait | Canada: Southampton Island (to the north-west) and Coats Island (to the south-east) |
Straits of Florida | Florida and Cuba |
Formosa Strait | Taiwan and the Mainland China |
Foveaux Strait | New Zealand, between the South Island and Stewart Island |
Foxe Channel | Canada: the Foxe Basin (to the north) from Hudson Bay and the Hudson Strait (to the south) |
Freeman Strait | Barentsøya and Edgeøya in Svalbard |
Frozen Strait | Canada: the Melville Peninsula to the north and Southampton Island to the south |
Fury and Hecla Strait | Canada: Baffin Island and Melville Peninsula |
Strait | Location |
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Galowa Strait, or Sele Strait | Salawati Island, New Guinea |
Strait of Georgia | Vancouver Island and mainland British Columbia |
Strait of Gibraltar | Europe (Spain) and Africa (Morocco) |
Golden Gate Strait | Marin County, California and San Francisco – entrance to San Francisco Bay |
Great Belt | The islands of Zealand and Funen (Denmark) |
Guadeloupe Passage | North of Guadeloupe, West Indies |
Gulf of Corryvreckan | The Scottish islands of Jura and Scarba |
Gulf of Mannar | India and Sri Lanka |
Gulf Trough (a.k.a. Suwannee Strait) | (Prehistoric) |
Strait | Location |
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Hall Basin | Ellesmere Island and Greenland |
Harlem River | Manhattan and The Bronx |
Haro Straits | A series of straits between British Columbia and Washington state |
Hecate Strait | Canada: Haida Gwaii and British Columbia |
Honguedo Strait | Canada: Anticosti Island and Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec |
Strait of Hormuz | Oman and Iran |
Hōyo Strait | Japan: Kyūshū and Shikoku |
Hudson Strait | Canada: Baffin Island and Quebec |
Strait | Location |
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Indispensable Strait | Guadalcanal and Malaita |
Irbe Strait | Latvia and the island of Saaremaa |
Strait | Location |
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Jamaica Channel | Jamaica and Hispaniola in the Caribbean |
Jildo Strait | Waigeo [2] (same as Jailolo Strait? [3] ) |
Johor Strait or Strait of Johor | Singapore and the state of Johor |
Jones Sound | Devon Island and the southern end of Ellesmere Island |
Strait of Juan de Fuca | Vancouver Island, and Olympic Peninsula |
Strait | Location |
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Kalmar Strait | Sweden:Öland and Småland |
Kane Basin | Ellesmere Island and Greenland |
Kanmon Strait | Japan: Honshū and Kyūshū |
Kara Strait | Russia: Novaya Zemlya and Vaygach Island |
Karimata Strait | Indonesia: Sumatra and Borneo |
Kattegat | Jutland and Halland and neighboring provinces. |
Kerch Strait | Crimea and Russia |
Sound of Kilbrannan | Scotland: Between Kintyre Peninsula and the island of Arran |
Kildin Strait | Kildin Island and Kola Peninsula |
Kill Van Kull | Staten Island and Bayonne, New Jersey |
Kitan Strait | Awaji Island and Honshū |
Korea Strait | Korea and Japan |
Gulf of Ephesus (Kólpos Ephésou), or Gulf of Kuşadası | Turkey and Samos, Greece |
Kvarken | Sweden and Finland |
Kwangtung Strait |
Strait | Location |
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Lancaster Sound | Devon Island and Baffin Island |
Langeland's Belt | Langeland and Lolland |
Lembeh Strait | Sulawesi and Lembeh island |
Little Belt | Island of Funen and mainland Denmark |
Lombok Strait | Bali and Lombok |
Luzon Strait | Taiwan and Luzon |
Name | Country | Details |
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Viscount Melville Sound | Canada | Between Victoria Island and Prince of Wales Island and the Queen Elizabeth Islands |
Vitiaz Strait | Papua New Guinea | Between New Guinea and Long Island |
Wantsum Channel | England | Former channel between the Isle of Thanet and the mainland of Kent; now drained, and Thanet now only separated from the mainland by the River Wantsum, a minor drainage channel |
Wetar Strait | East Timor Indonesia | Between East Timor and the Indonesian island of Wetar |
Windward Passage | Cuba Haiti | Between Cuba and Hispaniola |
Yucatán Channel | Cuba Mexico |
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The Strait of Georgia or the Georgia Strait is an arm of the Salish Sea between Vancouver Island and the extreme southwestern mainland coast of British Columbia, Canada, and the extreme northwestern mainland coast of Washington, United States. It is approximately 240 kilometres (150 mi) long and varies in width from 20 to 58 kilometres. Along with the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Puget Sound, it is a constituent part of the Salish Sea.
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