List of straits

This List of straits is an appendix to the article strait.

See also: Category:Straits

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A

Agate Pass - Puget Sound
Agattu Strait - Aleutians
Akashi Strait - Japan
Amchitka Pass - Aleutians
Anegada Passage - Virgin Islands and Anguilla
Arthur Kill - Staten Island and New Jersey

B

Bab-el-Mandeb - connects Red Sea to Gulf of Aden / Arabian Sea
Balabac Strait - between Palawan, Philippines and Borneo
Strait of Baltiysk - between Vistula Bay and Gdansk Bay
Bangka Strait - between Sumatra and Bangka Island
Banks Strait - between Cape Barren Island/Clarke Island and Tasmania
Bass Strait - between mainland Australia and Tasmania
Strait of Belle Isle - between Newfoundland and mainland Canada
Bering Strait - between Asia and North America
Bohol Strait - also called Cebu Strait, between Bohol and Cebu in the Philippines
Strait of Bonifacio - between Corsica and Sardinia
Bosporus - between Europe and Asia
Bougainville Strait - between Bougainville Island and Choiseul Island
Bransfield Strait - between South Shetland Islands and Antarctic Peninsula
Bungo Channel - Japan

C

Cabot Strait - between Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island
Strait of Canso - between Cape Breton Island and mainland Nova Scotia
Carquinez Strait - connects San Pablo Bay and Suisun Bay, California
Chatham Strait - between Chichagof Island and Admiralty Island, Alaska
Clarence Strait - between Prince of Wales Island and mainland Alaska
Colvos Passage - Puget Sound
Cook Strait - between the North Island and South Island of New Zealand

D

Dalcahue Channel - between Quinchao Island and Chiloé Island
Dalco Passage - Puget Sound
Dampier Strait (Papua New Guinea) - between New Britain and Umboi Island
Dampier Strait (Indonesia) - between Bird's Head Peninsula and Raja Ampat Islands
Danish straits - between Scandinavia and Jutland
Dardanelles - between Europe and Asia
Davis Strait - between Baffin Island and Greenland
Deception Pass - Puget Sound
Denmark Strait - between Greenland and Iceland
Detroit River - between Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie
Dolphin and Union Strait - between Northwest Territories and Victoria Island
Strait of Dover - the narrowest part of the English Channel between England and France
Dragon's Mouths (Bocas del Dragón) - between Trinidad and Venezuela
Drake Passage - between South America and Antarctica

E

East River - between Manhattan, the Bronx and Long Island
English Channel - between Great Britain and France
Euripus Strait - Between the Island of Euboea and Greece mainland on the Aegean.

F

Falkland Sound, - between West Falkland and East Falkland
Straits of Florida - between Florida and Cuba
Formosa Strait - between Taiwan and the Chinese mainland
Foveaux Strait - between the South Island and Stewart Island of New Zealand
Fury and Hecla Strait - between Baffin Island and Melville Peninsula

G

Strait of Georgia - between Vancouver Island and British Columbia
Strait of Gibraltar - between Europe and Africa
Great Belt - Denmark
Guadeloupe Passage - north of Guadeloupe, West Indies
Gulf Trough or Suwannee Strait (prehistoric)

H

Harlem River - between Manhattan and The Bronx
Hecate Strait - between Haida Gwaii and British Columbia
Honguedo Strait - between Anticosti Island and Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec
Strait of Hormuz - between Oman and Iran
Hōyo Strait - Japan
Hudson Strait - between Baffin Island and Quebec

J

Johor Strait - between Singapore and the state of Johor of Malaysia
Strait of Juan de Fuca - between Vancouver Island, Canada and Olympic Peninsula, United States
Jamaica Channel - between Jamaica and Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea

K

Kalmar Strait - between Öland and Småland
Kanmon Strait - between Honshū and Kyūshū
Kara Strait
Karimata Strait - between Sumatra and Borneo
Kerch Strait - between Crimea and Russia
Kill Van Kull - between Staten Island and Bayonne, New Jersey
Kitan Strait - Japan
Korea Strait - between Korea and Japan
Kwangtung Strait

L

La Perouse Strait (also Soya Strait) - between Sakhalin and Japan
Lancaster Strait
Little Belt - Denmark
Lombok Strait
Luzon Strait - between Taiwan and Luzon, Philippines

M

Straits of Mackinac - between Michigan's Upper and Lower Peninsulas
Strait of Magellan - between South America and Tierra del Fuego
Makassar Strait - between Borneo and Sulawesi
Straits of Malacca - between Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra
Mare Island Strait
Martinique Channel - between Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada
Martinique Passage - between Dominica and Martinique
McClure Strait - Melville Island and Banks Island
Menai Strait - between Anglesey and mainland Wales
Strait of Messina - between Sicily and mainland Italy
The Minch - between Outer Hebrides and mainland Scotland
Mindoro Strait - between Mindoro and Palawan in the Philippines
Mona Passage - between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico
Myeongnyang Strait - between Jindo Island and mainland South Korea

N

Nares Strait - between Ellesmere Island and Northern Greenland and connects Baffin Bay with Lincoln Sea / the Arctic Sea.
The Narrows - between Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City
Naruto Strait - Japan
Straits of Niagara - between Lake Erie and the Lake Ontario / and the Province of Ontario, Canada, and the State of New York, USA
North Channel - between Northern Ireland and Scotland
Northumberland Strait - between Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick/Nova Scotia

O

Oresund - between Denmark and Sweden
Strait of Otranto - between Italy and Albania

P

Palk Strait - between India and Sri Lanka
Pentland Firth - between the Orkney archipelago and the mainland of Scotland
Pertuis d'Antioche - on the Atlantic coast of Western France
Pickering Passage - Puget Sound
Port Washington Narrows - Puget Sound
Porte des Morts - between Green Bay and Lake Michigan
Panama - Between North America and South America (Panama Canal)

Q

Qiongzhou Strait - Hainan and Guangdong

R

Rich Passage - Puget Sound

S

St George's Channel - between Ireland and Wales
St George's Channel - between New Britain and New Ireland in the Bismarck Archipelago
Sakonnet River - between Aquidneck Island and Tiverton and Little Compton, Rhode Island.
San Bernardino Strait - between Luzon and Samar in the Philippines
San Juanico Strait - between Samar and Leyte islands in the Philippines
Scapa Flow - between several of the Orkney islands
Serpent's Mouth (Boca del Serpiente) - between Trinidad and Venezuela
Skagerrak separating Denmark from Norway and Sweden
Shelikof Strait - between mainland Alaska and Kodiak Island
Strait of Dover - part of the English Channel between Great Britain and France
Strait of Georgia - between Vancouver Island and mainland British Columbia, Canada
Strait of Sicily - between Sicily and Africa
Singapore Strait - between Singapore and Indonesia (Sumatra)
The Solent - between the Isle of Wight and the mainland of southern England
Soya Strait or La Pérouse Strait is a strait dividing Sakhalin (Karafuto) from Hokkaidō
Sumba Strait - between Flores and Sumba, Indonesia
Sunda Strait - between Sumatra and Java
Surigao Strait - between Leyte and Mindanao islands in the Philippines
The Swale - between the Isle of Sheppey and the mainland of southern England

T

Tablas Strait - between Mindoro and Panay islands in the Philippines
Tacoma Narrows - Puget Sound
Taiwan Strait - between Taiwan and Mainland China
Tanon Strait - between Negros and Cebu islands in the Philippines
Strait of Tartary (also Mamiya Strait and Strait of Nevelskoi) - Sakhalin
Strait of Tiran - between the Sinai peninsula and Saudi Arabia
Tolo Channel - narrow opening to the Tolo Harbour
Torres Strait - between New Guinea and Australia
Tsugaru Strait - between Hokkaidō and Honshū
Tsushima Strait - between Iki Island and Korean Peninsula
Strait of Tebrau - between Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore

V

Vitiaz Strait - between New Guinea and Long Island

W

Wantsum Channel - former channel between the Isle of Thanet and the mainland of southern England – now drained, and Thanet now only separated from the mainland by the River Wantsum, a minor drainage channel
Windward Passage - between Cuba and Hispaniola

Y

Yucatan Channel - between Mexico and Cuba

See also

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