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
[edit]| 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
[edit]C
[edit]| 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| |
| 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
[edit]E
[edit]| 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
[edit]| 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
[edit]| 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
[edit]| 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
[edit]| Strait | Location |
|---|---|
| Indispensable Strait | Guadalcanal and Malaita |
| Irbe Strait | Latvia and the island of Saaremaa |
J
[edit]| 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
[edit]| 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
[edit]| 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
[edit]N
[edit]- 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 River – 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 (British Isles) – between Northern Ireland and Scotland
- North Channel (Ontario) – between Georgian Bay on the east, and St. Marys River on the west
- Northumberland Strait – between Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick/Nova Scotia
O
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Palk Strait – between India and Sri Lanka
- Panama – between North America and South America (Panama Canal)
- Parry Channel – between Baffin Bay in the east and Beaufort Sea in the west, of Canada
- 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
- Polillo Strait - between Polillo Island and Luzon Island
- Port Washington Narrows – Puget Sound
- Porte des Morts – between Green Bay and Lake Michigan
- Prince of Wales Strait – between Banks Island and Victoria Island in Canada
- Prince Regent Inlet – between the west end of Baffin Island (Brodeur Peninsula) and Somerset Island on the west, of Canada
Q
[edit]- Qiongzhou Strait – between Hainan and Guangdong
- Queen Charlotte Strait – between Vancouver Island and the mainland of British Columbia, Canada
R
[edit]- Revenges Strait – a.k.a. Sele Strait
- Rich Passage – Puget Sound
- Robeson Channel – between Ellesmere Island and Greenland
- Roes Welcome Sound – between the mainland of Canada on the west and Southampton Island on the east
S
[edit]- 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
- 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
[edit]- 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
- Ticao Pass - separates Ticao Island from the Bicol Peninsula in the Philippines.
- 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
- Turkish Straits – collectively refers to the Turkish straits the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles between Asia and Europe
VWY
[edit]| 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 |