# 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.
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* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z
* See also

## 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 |
| 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 (same as Jailolo Strait?) |
| 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

* 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

* 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)
* 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

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

## R

* 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

* 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

* 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 | |