List of straits

This list of straits is an appendix to the article strait. For "Strait of.." see "S", for "The.. " see the first letter of the word which follows the article.

A

• Agate Pass - Puget Sound
• Agattu Strait - Aleutians
• Akashi Strait - Japan
• Alas Strait - between Lombok and Sumbawa in Indonesia
• Alor Strait - Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia
• Amchitka Pass - Aleutians
• Anegada Passage - between the Virgin Islands and Anguilla
• Anguilla Channel - between Anguilla and Saint Martin
• Arthur Kill - between Staten Island and New Jersey
• Augusta's Strait - a.k.a. Dampier Strait (Indonesia)

B

• Bab-el-Mandeb - connects Red Sea to Gulf of Aden / Arabian Sea
• Bab Iskender - between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti in Africa
• Balabac Strait - between Palawan, Philippines and Borneo
• Bali Strait - between the Indonesian islands of Java and Bali
• Strait of Baltiysk - between Vistula Bay and Gdansk Bay
• Bangka Strait - between Sumatra and Bangka Island (also: Banca, Banka)
• Banks Strait - between Cape Barren Island/Clarke Island and Tasmania
• Bashi Channel - between Mavudis (also called Y'Ami Island), Philippines and Orchid Island, Taiwan
• Bass Strait - between mainland Australia and Tasmania
• Beagle Channel - Tierra del Fuego
• Strait of Belle Isle - between Newfoundland and mainland Canada
• Bering Strait - between Asia and North America
• Bohai Strait - between Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea
• Bohol Strait - a.k.a. Cebu Strait
• Strait of Bonifacio - between Corsica and Sardinia
• Bosporus - between Europe and Asia
• Bougainville Strait (Indonesia) - between Waigeo and the Kawe Islands^[1]
• Bougainville Strait (Solomon Islands) - between Bougainville Island and Choiseul Island
• Boundary Pass - between British Columbia and Washington state
• Bransfield Strait - between South Shetland Islands and Antarctic Peninsula
• Bungo Channel - between Kyūshū and Shikoku in Japan

C

• Cabot Strait - between Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island
• Caicos Passage - between Turks and Caicos Islands and the Bahamas
• Strait of Canso - between Cape Breton Island and mainland Nova Scotia
• Carquinez Strait - connects San Pablo Bay and Suisun Bay, California
• Cebu Strait (a.k.a. Bohol Strait) - between Bohol and Cebu in the Philippines
• Chatham Strait - between Chichagof Island and Admiralty Island, Alaska
• Chios Strait - between Turkey and the Greek island Chios
• Clarence Strait - between Prince of Wales Island and mainland Alaska
• Coco Channel - between the Burmese Coco Islands and the Indian North Andaman Island
• Colvos Passage - Puget Sound
• Cook Strait - between the North Island and South Island of New Zealand
• Straits of Corfu - between the Greek island Corfu and mainland Greece/Albania

D

• Dalcahue Channel - between Quinchao Island and Chiloé Island
• Dalco Passage - Puget Sound
• Dampier Strait (Indonesia) - between Bird's Head Peninsula and Raja Ampat Islands
• Dampier Strait (Papua New Guinea) - between New Britain and Umboi Island
• 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
• La Désirade Passage - Guadeloupe
• Detroit River - between Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie
• Dixon Entrance - between Alaska and British Columbia
• Dolphin and Union Strait - between Northwest Territories and Victoria Island
• Dominica Passage - between Dominica and Guadeloupe
• Strait of Dover - the narrowest part of the English Channel between Great Britain 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
• Fehmarn Belt - between the German island Fehmarn and the Danish island Lolland
• Fehmarn Sound - between German island Fehmarn and the German mainland
• 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

• Galowa Strait - a.k.a. Sele Strait
• Strait of Georgia - between Vancouver Island and mainland British Columbia, Canada
• Strait of Gibraltar - between Europe and Africa
• Golden Gate Strait - between Marin County, CA and San Francisco, CA - entrance to San Francisco Bay
• Great Belt - between the islands of Zealand and Funen in Denmark
• Guadeloupe Passage - north of Guadeloupe, West Indies
• Gulf of Mannar - between India and Sri Lanka
• Gulf Trough (a.k.a. Suwannee Strait) - (prehistoric)

H

• Hall Basin - between Ellesmere Island and Greenland
• Harlem River - between Manhattan and The Bronx
• Haro Straits - series of straits between British Columbia and Washington state
• 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 - between Kyūshū and Shikoku in Japan
• Hudson Strait - between Baffin Island and Quebec

I

• Irbe Strait - between Latvia and the island of Saaremaa in Estonia

J

• Jamaica Channel - between Jamaica and Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea
• Jildo Strait - somewhere around Waigeo ^[2] (same as Jailolo Strait?^[3])
• Johor Strait or Strait of Johor - between Singapore and the state of Johor of Malaysia
• Strait of Juan de Fuca - between Vancouver Island, Canada and Olympic Peninsula, United States

K

• Kalmar Strait - between Öland and Småland
• Kane Basin - between Ellesmere Island and Greenland
• Kanmon Strait - between Honshū and Kyūshū
• Kara Strait - between Novaya Zemlya and Vaygach Island in Russia
• Karimata Strait - between Sumatra and Borneo
• Kattegat - between Danish Jutland and Swedish Halland and neighboring provinces.
• Kerch Strait - between Crimea and Russia
• Kill Van Kull - between Staten Island and Bayonne, New Jersey
• Kitan Strait - between Awaji Island and the island Honshū in Japan
• Korea Strait - between Korea and Japan
• Gulf of Kuşadası - between Turkey and the Greek island Samos
• Kvarken - between Sweden and Finland
• Kwangtung Strait

L

• Langeland's Belt - between Danish islands of Langeland and Lolland
• Little Belt - between the island Funen and mainland Denmark
• Lombok Strait - between Bali and Lombok in Indonesia
• 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
• Malacca Strait or Strait of Malacca - between Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra
• Maliku Kandu - Maldives
• Malta Channel - between Malta and Sicily
• Mare Island Strait - California
• Marie-Galante Passage - Guadeloupe
• 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
• Mytilini Strait - between Turkey and the Greek island Lesbos

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 - between Awaji Island and the island Shikoku in Japan
• Nemuro Strait - between Kunashir Island and the Shiretoko Peninsula in Hokkaidō, Japan
• Niagara Strait or Straits of Niagara - between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario / and the province of Ontario, Canada, and the state of New York, USA
• Nicholas Channel - between Cuba and the Bahamas
• North Channel - between Northern Ireland and Scotland
• Northumberland Strait - between Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick/Nova Scotia

O

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

P

• Palk Strait - between India and Sri Lanka
• Panama - between North America and South America (Panama Canal)
• Pearse Canal - between Alaska and islands of British Columbia
• Pentland Firth - between the Orkney archipelago and the mainland of Scotland
• La Pérouse Strait (also Soya Strait) - between 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) - between Salawati and Batanta in Indonesia
• Pitt Strait (New Zealand) - between Chatham Island and Pitt Island in the Chatham Islands
• Port Washington Narrows - Puget Sound
• Porte des Morts - between Green Bay and Lake Michigan

Q

• Qiongzhou Strait - Hainan and Guangdong

R

• Revenges Strait - a.k.a. Sele Strait
• Rich Passage - Puget Sound
• Robeson Channel - between Ellesmere Island and Greenland

S

• Sagewin Strait - a.k.a. Pitt Strait (Indonesia)
• Saint-Barthélemy Channel - between Saint Barthélemy and Saint Martin
• St George's Channel - between Ireland and Wales
• St George's Channel - between New Britain and New Ireland in the Bismarck Archipelago
• Saint Lucia Channel - between Martinique and Saint Lucia
• 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 - between several of the Orkney islands
• Sele Strait (a.k.a. Galowa Strait, Revenges Strait) - between Salawati and New Guinea
• Serpent's Mouth (Boca del Serpiente) - between Trinidad and Venezuela
• Shelikof Strait - between mainland Alaska and Kodiak Island
• Sibutu Passage - between Borneo and the Sulu Archipelago
• Strait of Sicily - between Sicily and Africa
• Singapore Strait - between Singapore and Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Skagerrak - separating Denmark from Norway and Sweden
• Smith Sound - between Ellesmere Island and Greenland
• The Solent - between the Isle of Wight and southern Great Britain
• The Sound or Øresund - between Denmark and Sweden
• South Kvarken - between the Finnish Åland Islands and Sweden
• Soya Strait or La Pérouse 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
• Suwannee Strait (prehistoric) - a.k.a. Gulf Trough
• Svinesund - between Norway and Sweden
• The Swale - between the Isle of Sheppey and southern Great Britain

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 Tebrau - between Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore
• Strait of Tiran - between the Sinai peninsula and Saudi Arabia
• Tolo Channel - narrow opening to the Tolo Harbour in Hong Kong
• Tongass Passage - between Alaska and British Columbia
• Torres Strait - between New Guinea and Australia
• Tsugaru Strait - between Hokkaidō and Honshū
• Tsushima Strait - between Iki Island and the Korean Peninsula
• Turkish Straits - collectively refers to the Turkish straits the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles

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
• Wetar Strait - between Timor and the Indonesian island of Wetar
• Windward Passage - between Cuba and Hispaniola

Y

• Yucatan Channel - between Mexico and Cuba

See also

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