strait
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concept
A strait is a narrow waterway that connects two larger bodies of water and often separates two landmasses.
Aliases (7)
- sea channel ×5
- international strait ×2
- sea strait ×2
- maritime chokepoint ×1
- narrow channel ×1
- narrow inlet ×1
- strategic chokepoint ×1
Instances (78)
- Korea Strait
- Bering Strait
- Black Sea and Sea of Azov
- Strait of Gibraltar
- Channel
- The Narrows
- Tsugaru Strait
- Fram Strait ("sea strait")
- Davis Strait
- Dardanelles
- Denmark Strait
- Vineyard Sound
- Bosporus
- La Pérouse Strait
- Taiwan Strait
- Bab-el-Mandeb Strait
- Strait of Dover
- Strait of Hormuz
- Skagerrak
- Luzon Strait
- Sunda Strait
- Bali Strait
- Madura Strait
- Bransfield Strait
- Straits of Johor
- Singapore Strait
- Kattegat
- Straits of Florida
- Georgia Strait
- Strait of Malacca
- Juan de Fuca Strait
- Hecate Strait
- Admiralty Inlet
- North Channel
- Straits of Mackinac
- St George’s Channel ("sea channel")
- Nansen Sound
- Primera Angostura
- Kii Channel
- Segunda Angostura
- Strait of Messina
- Mozambique Channel
- Lombok Strait
- Kerch Strait
- Detroit River
- Mona Passage
- Solent
- Karimata Strait
- Bass Strait ("sea strait")
- Strait of Kythira
- Beagle Channel
- Øresund
- Makassar Strait
- Golden Gate Strait
- Porte des Morts Passage
- Strait of Otranto
- Bluemull Sound ("sea channel")
- Yell Sound ("sea channel")
- Cook Strait
- Strait of Bonifacio
- Ironbottom Sound
- Lancaster Sound ("sea channel")
- Hudson Strait
- Drake Passage
- Strait of Magellan
- The Narrows
- Tongass Narrows