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, WA, United States |
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 |
Strait | Location |
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Nares Strait | Ellesmere Island and Northern Greenland and connects Baffin Bay with Lincoln Sea / the Arctic Sea |
The Narrows | Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City, U.S.A |
Naruto Strait | Awaji Island and the island Shikoku in Japan |
Nemuro Strait | Kunashir Island and the Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaidō, Japan |
Niagara River | Lake Erie and Lake Ontario / and the province of Ontario, Canada, and the state of New York, USA |
Nicholas Channel | Cuba and the Bahamas |
North Channel (British Isles) | Northern Ireland and Scotland |
North Channel (Ontario) | Georgian Bay on the east, and St. Marys River on the west |
Northumberland Strait | Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick/Nova Scotia |
Strait | Location |
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Old Bahama Channel | Cuba and the Bahamas |
Ombai Strait | Alor Archipelago, Indonesia |
Øresund | Danish Zealand and Swedish Scania |
Strait of Otranto | Italy and Albania |
Strait | Location |
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Palk Strait | India and Sri Lanka |
Panama Canal | North America and South America (Panama) |
Parry Channel | Baffin Bay in the east and Beaufort Sea in the west, of Canada |
Pearse Canal | Alaska and islands of British Columbia |
Pentland Firth | Orkney archipelago and the mainland of Scotland |
La Pérouse Strait (also Soya Strait) | Sakhalin and Japan |
Pertuis d'Antioche | On the Atlantic coast of Western France |
Pickering Passage | Puget Sound |
Pitt Strait (Indonesia) (a.k.a. Sagewin Strait) | Salawati and Batanta in Indonesia |
Pitt Strait (New Zealand) | Chatham Island and Pitt Island in the Chatham Islands |
Polillo Strait | Polillo Island and Luzon Island |
Port Washington Narrows | Puget Sound |
Porte des Morts | Green Bay and Lake Michigan |
Prince of Wales Strait | Banks Island and Victoria Island in Canada |
Prince Regent Inlet | West end of Baffin Island (Brodeur Peninsula) and Somerset Island on the west, of Canada |
Strait | Location |
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Qiongzhou Strait | Hainan and Guangdong |
Queen Charlotte Strait | Vancouver Island and the mainland of British Columbia, Canada |
Strait | Location |
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Revenges Strait a.k.a. Sele Strait | Salawati Island, New Guinea |
Rich Passage | Puget Sound |
Robeson Channel | Ellesmere Island and Greenland |
Roes Welcome Sound | Mainland of Canada on the west and Southampton Island on the east |
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 |