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	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[1]
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|
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[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

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

See also

• Intercontinental and transoceanic fixed links
• Floating suspension bridge

References

1. "Selat Bougainville, Indonesia - Geographical Names, map, geographic coordinates". geographic.org. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
2. Revue hydrographique, vols. 19–21, International Hydrographic Bureau, 1942
3. "Selat Jailolo, Indonesia - Geographical Names, map, geographic coordinates".