List of straits

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.

A

Strait Location
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

B

Strait Location
Bab-el-Mandeb Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden / Arabian Sea
Bab Iskender Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti in Africa
Balabac Strait Palawan and Borneo
Bali Strait Java and Bali
Strait of Baltiysk Vistula Bay and Gdańsk Bay
Bangka Strait Sumatra and Bangka Island (also: Banca, Banka)
Banks Strait Cape Barren Island/Clarke Island and Tasmania
Bashi Channel Mavudis (also called Y'Ami Island), and Orchid Island
Basilan Strait between Mindanao, Philippines and Basilan
Bass Strait Mainland Australia and Tasmania
Beagle Channel Tierra del Fuego
Strait of Belle Isle Newfoundland and Mainland Canada
Bering Strait Asia and North America
Boca Chica Pass Former strait between the Gulf of Mexico and the South Bay of the Laguna Madre
Bohai Strait Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea
Bohol Strait Cebu Strait
Strait of Bonifacio Corsica and Sardinia
Bosporus Europe and Asia
Bougainville Strait (Indonesia) Waigeo and the Kawe Islands[1]
Bougainville Strait Bougainville Island and Choiseul Island
Boundary Pass British Columbia and Washington state
Bransfield Strait South Shetland Islands and Antarctic Peninsula
Bungo Channel Kyūshū and Shikoku
Burias Pass Bicol Peninsula and Burias Island

C

Strait Location
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

D

Strait Location
Dalcahue Channel Chile: Quinchao Island and Chiloé Island
Dalco Passage Puget Sound
Dampier Strait (Indonesia) Bird's Head Peninsula and Raja Ampat Islands
Dampier Strait (Papua New Guinea) New Britain and Umboi Island
Danish straits Refers collectively to the Danish straits Oresund, Fehmarn Belt, Little Belt and Great Belt between Scandinavia and Jutland.
Dardanelles Europe and Asia
Davis Strait Baffin Island and Greenland
Deception Pass Puget Sound
Denmark Strait Greenland and Iceland
La Désirade Passage Guadeloupe
Detroit River Connects Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie.
Separates the province of Ontario, Canada, and the state of Michigan, USA
(The word "détroit" is French for "strait".)
Dixon Entrance Alaska and British Columbia
Dolphin and Union Strait Northwest Territories and Victoria Island
Dominica Passage Dominica and Guadeloupe
Strait of Dover The narrowest part of the English Channel
Dragon's Mouths (Bocas del Dragón) Trinidad and Venezuela
Drake Passage South America and Antarctica

E

Strait Location
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

F

Strait Location
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

G

Strait Location
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)

H

Strait Location
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

I

Strait Location
Indispensable Strait Guadalcanal and Malaita
Irbe Strait Latvia and the island of Saaremaa

J

Strait Location
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

K

Strait Location
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

L

Strait Location
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

M

Strait Location
Straits of Mackinac Connects Lake Michigan and Lake Huron.
Separates Michigan's Upper and Lower Peninsulas
Strait of Magellan South America and Tierra del Fuego
Main Channel Connects Lake Huron and Georgian Bay.
Separates Ontario's Manitoulin Island and the Bruce Peninsula.
Makassar Strait Borneo and Sulawesi
Malacca Strait or Strait of Malacca Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra
Maliku Kandu Maldives
Malta Channel Malta and Sicily
Maqueda Channel Between Luzon and Catanduanes
Mare Island Strait Mare Island and mainland Solano County in California
Marie-Galante Passage Guadeloupe
Martinique Channel Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada
Martinique Passage Dominica and Martinique
McClintock Strait Islands of Victoria Island and Prince of Wales Island
McClure Strait Melville Island and Banks Island
Menai Strait Anglesey and mainland Wales
Strait of Messina Sicily and Italian peninsula
The Minch Outer Hebrides and mainland Scotland
Mindoro Strait Mindoro and Palawan
Mona Passage Hispaniola and Puerto Rico
Myeongnyang Strait Jindo Island and Korean peninsula
Mytilini Strait Turkey and the island of Lesbos

N

Strait Location
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

O

Strait Location
Old Bahama Channel Cuba and the Bahamas
Ombai Strait Alor Archipelago, Indonesia
Øresund Danish Zealand and Swedish Scania
Strait of Otranto Italy and Albania

P

Strait Location
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

Q

Strait Location
Qiongzhou Strait Hainan and Guangdong
Queen Charlotte Strait Vancouver Island and the mainland of British Columbia, Canada

R

Strait Location
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

S

  • Sagewin Strait - a.k.a. Pitt Strait (Indonesia)
  • Saint-Barthélemy Channel – between Saint Barthélemy and Saint Martin
  • St. Clair River – Connects Lake Huron and Lake St. Clair.
    Separates the province of Ontario, Canada, and the state of Michigan, USA
  • St George's Channel – between Ireland and Wales
  • St George's Channel – between New Britain and New Ireland in the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea
  • Saint Lucia Channel – between Martinique and Saint Lucia
  • St. Marys River – between Lake Superior and Lake Huron / and the province of Ontario, Canada, and the state of Michigan, USA
  • Saint Vincent Passage – between Saint Vincent and Saint Lucia
  • Les Saintes Passage – Guadeloupe
  • 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 – Scotland: between several of the Orkney islands
  • Sele Strait (a.k.a. Galowa Strait, Revenges Strait) – between Salawati and New Guinea
  • Serpent's Mouth (Boca de la Serpiente) – between Trinidad and Venezuela
  • Shelikof Strait – between the Alaska mainland to the west and Kodiak and Afognak islands to the east, in the USA
  • Sibutu Passage – between Borneo and the Sulu Archipelago
  • Strait of Sicily – between Sicily and Africa
  • Singapore Strait – Connects the Strait of Malacca and the South China Sea. Separates Singapore and Indonesia (Sumatra).
  • Skagerrak – separating Denmark from Norway and Sweden
  • Skog Passage – west of Joinville Island, Antarctica
  • Smith Sound – between Ellesmere Island (Canada) and Greenland
  • The Solent – England: between the Isle of Wight and Hampshire
  • The Sound or Øresund – between Denmark and Sweden
  • South Kvarken – between the Finnish Åland and Sweden
  • Soya Strait or La Pérouse Strait – separates Sakhalin (Karafuto) (Russia) from Hokkaidō (Japan)
  • Sula Channel - connects Albay Gulf to Pacific Ocean
  • Sumba Strait – between Flores and Sumba, Indonesia
  • Sunda Strait – between Sumatra and Java
  • Surigao Strait – between Leyte and Mindanao islands in the Philippines
  • Suwannee Strait (prehistoric) – a.k.a. Gulf Trough: Florida (USA)
  • Svinesund – between Norway and Sweden
  • The Swale – England: between the Isle of Sheppey and the mainland of Kent.

T

VWY

Name Country Details
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

See also

  • Intercontinental and transoceanic fixed links
  • Floating suspension bridge

References

  1. ^ "Selat Bougainville, Indonesia - Geographical Names, map, geographic coordinates". geographic.org. Archived from the original on 2021-06-12. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
  2. ^ Revue hydrographique, vols. 19–21, International Hydrographic Bureau, 1942
  3. ^ "Selat Jailolo, Indonesia - Geographical Names, map, geographic coordinates".
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