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 being a narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water. Most commonly, the strait is a narrow channel that lies between two land masses.

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Strait	Location	Depth (Meters)	Min Width (Meters)	Max Width (Meters)	Known Crossings
Agate Pass	Part of Puget Sound. Separates Bainbridge Island from the mainland of the Kitsap Peninsula near Suquamish	6.1	91	375	Agate Pass Bridge
Agattu Strait	Attu Island and Agattu Island in the Alaskan Aleutians	-	-	-	-
Akashi Strait	Connects Seto Inland Sea and Osaka Bay.Separates Honshu from Awaji Island, Japan	110	-	4,000	Akashi Kaikyo Bridge
Alas Strait	Separates Lombok and Sumbawa, two islands of Indonesia	-	-	-	-
Alor Strait	Divides the Solor Archipelago from the Alor Archipelago, in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia.	-	-	-	-
Amchitka Pass	It is the largest pass in the Aleutian Islands Alaskan	1,800	-	80,000	-
Anegada Passage	In the Caribbean Sea. Separates the Virgin Islands and Anguilla	2,300	-	127,000	-
Anguilla Channel	In the Caribbean Sea. Separates Anguilla and Saint Martin	-	-	-	Ferry service from Marigot, Saint Martin
Arthur Kill	Separates Staten Island and New Jersey	-	-	-	Goethals Bridge, Outerbridge Crossing, and the Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge
Augusta's Strait	Aka. Dampier Strait (Indonesia), between the Raja Ampat islands of Waigeo and Batanta, province of West Papua	-	-	-	-
Bab-el-Mandeb	Between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti and Eritrea in the Horn of Africa, connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and by extension the Indian Ocean.	186	26,000	-	-
Bab Iskender	The eastern section of the Bab-el-Mandeb straits	330	6,400	24,000	-
Balabac Strait	Connects the South China Sea with the Sulu Sea. It separates Balabac Island (Palawan province), Philippines, from Balambangan and the Banggi Islands north of Borneo	100	50,000	-	-
Bali Strait	Separating Java and Bali while connecting the Indian Ocean and the Bali Sea.	60	2,400	-	Ferry between Ketapang in Java
Baltiysk strait	Connects Vistula Bay and Gdańsk Bay	12	400	-	-
Bangka Strait	Separates Sumatra and Bangka Island (also: Banca, Banka)	27	14,000	48,000	-
Banks Strait	Separates Cape Barren Island/Clarke Island and Tasmania	-	-	-	-
Bashi Channel	Between the Batanes Islands, Philippines and Orchid Island of Taiwan	-	-	-	-
Basilan Strait	Lies between Mindanao and Basilan in thePhilippines	-	-	-	-
Bass Strait	Divides Mainland Australia and Tasmania	155	-	350,000	Spirit of Tasmania
Beagle Channel	Separates the larger main island of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego from various smaller islands	-	4,800	-	-
Belle Isle strait	Separates Labrador, Canada from the island of Newfoundland	-	15,000	60,000	Proposed: Newfoundland–Labrador fixed link
Bering Strait	Connects the Pacific and Arctic oceans, separating the Chukchi Peninsula of the Russian Far East from the Seward Peninsula of Alaska.	90	82,000	-	Proposed: Bering Strait crossing
Bohai Strait	Connects the Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea. Separates the Liaodong Peninsula, and the Shandong Peninsula	80	-	-	-
Bonifacio strait	Separates Corsica and Sardinia	100	11,000	-	-
Bosporus	Connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmaraand separates Europe and Asia	100	700	-	15 July Martyrs Bridge, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge, Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge, and Eurasia Tunnel
Bougainville Strait	Separates Choiseul Island, part of Solomon Islands, from Bougainville Island, part of Papua New Guinea.	-	-	-	-
Boundary Pass	British Columbia and Washington state. It connects Haro Strait to the south with the Strait of Georgia to the north.	-	-	23,000	-
Bransfield Strait	Divides South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula	2,000	-	100,000	-
Bungo Channel	Separates Kyūshū and Shikoku	-	-	-	-
Burias Pass	Separates Bicol Peninsula and Burias Island in the Philippines	-	-	-	-
Cabot Strait	Separates Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island in Canada	550	-	130,000	-
Caicos Passage	The Caicos Islands are separated by the Caicos Passage from the closest Bahamian islands, Mayaguana and Great Inagua.	-	-	-	-
Canso strait	Separates mainland Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island, in eastern Canada.	61	1,000	-	-
Cebu Strait (a.k.a. Bohol Strait)	Connects the western part of the Bohol Sea with the Camotes Sea, and separates the island provinces of Cebu and Bohol.	-	-	-	-
Chatham Strait	Separates Chichagof Island and Baranof Island to its west from Admiralty Island and Kuiu Island on its east in Alaska.	-	5,000	16,000	-
Chios Strait	Separates the Greek island of Chios from the Anatolian mainland and from the Aegean Region of Turkey.	-	-	-	-
Clarence Strait	Separates Prince of Wales Island, on the west side, from Revillagigedo Island and Annette Island, on the east side	-	5556	-	-
Colvos Passage	Part of Puget Sound. Separates Vashon Island and the Kitsap Peninsula.	-	-	-	-
Cook Strait	New Zealand, between the North Island and the South Island	128	22,000	-	fFerry services run between Picton in the Marlborough Sounds and Wellington
Corfu Strait	Separates Corfu and mainland Greece/Albania	-	-	-	-
Cozumel Channel	Separate Cozumel Island and the Yucatán Peninsula	-	-	-	-
Cross Sound	Chichagof Island to its south and the mainland to its north, of Alaska	-	-	-	-
Dalcahue Channel	Part of the Sea of Chiloé that separates Quinchao Island from Chiloé Island, Chile	-	-	-	-
Dalco Passage	Part of Puget Sound. Separates Vashon Island and the mainland near Tacoma, USA	-	-	-	-
Dampier Strait (Indonesia) (sometimes also known as Augusta's Strait)	Separates the Raja Ampat islands of Waigeo and Batanta, Indonesia	-	-	-	-
Dampier Strait (Papua New Guinea)	Separates Umboi Island and New Britain, PNG	-	-	-	-
Danish straits	Refers collectively to the Danish straits Oresund, Fehmarn Belt, Little Belt and Great Belt between Scandinavia and Jutland.	-	-	-	Little Belt Bridge, Storstrøm Bridge, Siøsund Bridge, New Little Belt Bridge , Alssund Bridge, Great Belt Bridge,Øresund Bridge
Dardanelles	Connects the Sea of Marmara with the Aegean and Mediterranean seas. Separates Europe and Asia	103	1,200	6,000	1915 Çanakkale Bridge
Davis Strait	Separates Baffin Island and Greenland	-	-	-	-
Deception Pass	Part of Puget Sound. Separates Whidbey Island in Island County, to Fidalgo Island	-	-	-	Deception Pass Bridge
Denmark Strait	Connects the Greenland Sea, an extension of the Arctic Ocean, to the Irminger Sea, a part of the Atlantic Ocean. Separates Greenland from Iceland	191	290,000	-	-
La Désirade Passage	In the Caribbean Sea. Separates the island of la Désirade, from Grande-Terre (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".)	16.2	800	4,000	Ambassador Bridge, Detroit–Windsor Tunnel, and Michigan Central Railway Tunnel
Dixon Entrance	Separates Haida Gwaii from the Alexander Archipelago. The Dixon Entrance is part of the Inside Passage shipping route.	-	-	-	-
Dolphin and Union Strait	Connects the Amundsen Gulf, to the Coronation Gulf. Separates Nunavut (Kitikmeot Region), Canada from Victoria Island.	-	32,000	64,000	-
Dominica Passage	In the Caribbean Sea. Separates the islands of Dominica and Marie-Galante, Guadeloupe.	-	-	-	-
Dover Straits	The narrowest part of the English Channel	223	33,000	-	The Channel Tunnel
Dragon's Mouths (Bocas del Dragón)	Connects the Gulf of Paria to the Caribbean Sea. Seperates Trinidad and Venezuela	-	-	-	-
Drake Passage	Connects Atlantic Ocean (Scotia Sea) with the southeastern part of the Pacific Ocean. Separates Cape Horn in Chile at the southern extreme of the South American mainland and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica	5,000	800,000	-	-
East River	Connects Upper New York Bay to Long Island Sound. Separates Long Island from Manhattan Island, and from the North American mainland.	51	-	-	Brooklyn Bridge, Williamsburg Bridge, the Queensboro Bridge, the Manhattan Bridge, the Hell Gate Railroad Bridge, the Triborough Bridge, the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, the Throgs Neck Bridge and the Rikers Island Bridge
Eastern Channel (a.k.a Tsushima Strait)	A channel of the Korea Strait, which lies between Korea and Japan, connecting the Sea of Japan, the Yellow Sea, and the East China Sea.	140	65,000	-	-
English Channel	Great Britain and France	174	34,000	240,000	Channel Tunnel
Euripus Strait	Separates the Greek island of Euboea in the Aegean Sea from Boeotia in mainland Greece.	-	38	-	Euripus Bridge
Falkland Sound	Separates West Falkland and East Falkland	-	-	-	-
Fehmarn Belt	Connecting the Bay of Kiel and the Bay of Mecklenburg in the Baltic Sea. Separates the German island of Fehmarn and the Danish island of Lolland.	30	18,600	-	Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link
Fehmarn Sound	Seperates Fehmarn and the German mainland	-	-	-	Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link
Fisher Strait	Separates Southampton Island (to the north-west) from Coats Island	-	-	-	-
Florida strait	Separates Florida and Cuba. Connects the Gulf of Mexico with the Atlantic Ocean.	1,800	150,000	-	-
Taiwan Strait(a.k.a.Formosa Strait)	Taiwan and the Mainland China	150	130,000	180,000	-
Foveaux Strait	Separates Stewart Island / Rakiura from the South Island of New Zealand	56	23,000	53,000	Stewart Island § Transport
Foxe Channel	Canada: the Foxe Basin (to the north) from Hudson Bay and the Hudson Strait (to the south)	-	-	-	-
Freeman Strait	Separating Barentsøya, to the north, from Edgeøya, in the Svalbard archipelago, Norway	-	-	-	-
Frozen Strait	Connects Roes Welcome Sound in the west, with Foxe Basin to the east.	-	19,000	32,000	-
Fury and Hecla Strait	Separates Baffin Island to the north and the Melville Peninsula, Canada	-	2,000	20,000	-
Georgia strait	Separates Vancouver Island and mainland British Columbia	420	20,000	58,000	Vancouver Island fixed link
Gibraltar strait	Connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates Europe from Africa.	900	14,200	-	Proposed: Strait of Gibraltar crossing
Golden Gate Strait	Connects San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean. Separates San Francisco Peninsula and the Marin Peninsula	115	4,800	-	Golden Gate Bridge
Great Belt	Between the major islands of Zealand (Sjælland) and Funen (Fyn) in Denmark. It is one of the three Danish Straits.	60	16,000	32,000	Great Belt ferries, Great Belt Fixed Link
Guadeloupe Passage	In the Caribbean Sea. Separates Guadeloupe from Montserrat and from Antigua and Barbuda.	-	-	-	-
Gulf of Corryvreckan	Between the islands of Jura and Scarba, in Argyll and Bute, off the west coast of mainland Scotland.	-	-	-	-
Gulf of Mannar	Separates India and Sri Lanka	1,335	130	275	-
Hall Basin	Between Ellesmere Island and Greenland	-	-	-	-
Harlem River	Separates the island of Manhattan the United States mainland	-	-	-	Wards Island Bridge, Robert F. Kennedy Triboro Lift Bridge, Willis Avenue Bridge, Third Avenue Bridge, Lexington Avenue Tunnel, Park Avenue Bridge, Madison Avenue Bridge, 149th Street Tunnel, 145th Street Bridge, Macombs Dam Bridge, Concourse Tunnel, Putnam Bridge, High Bridge, Alexander Hamilton Bridge, Washington Bridge, University Heights Bridge, Broadway Bridge, Henry Hudson Bridge, Spuyten Duyvil Bridge
Haro Straits	Connecting the Strait of Georgia to the Strait of Juan de Fuca, separating Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands in British Columbia, Canada	-	-	19,000	-
Hecate Strait	Between Haida Gwaii and British Columbia	-	48,000	140,000	-
Honguedo Strait	Between the Gaspésie peninsula and Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada	-	-	-	-
Hormuz strait	Connects between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. Separating Oman and Iran,	-	39,000	97,000	-
Hudson Strait	Links the Atlantic Ocean and the Labrador Sea to Hudson Bay in Canada. This strait lies between Baffin Island and Quebec	-	70,000	240,000	-
Indispensable Strait	Between Guadalcanal and Malaita	-	-	-	-
Irbe Strait	Connects the Gulf of Riga to the Baltic Sea, Separates the Sõrve Peninsula from the island Saaremaa in Estonia	-	27,000	-	-

J

Strait	Location
Jamaica Channel	Jamaica and Hispaniola in the Caribbean
Jildo Strait	Waigeo[1] (same as Jailolo Strait?[2])
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

• 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

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