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	an historical 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 the 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	the North Island and 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	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	collectively refers 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	Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie / and 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	Southampton Island (to the north-west) from Coats Island (to the south-east)
Straits of Florida	Florida and Cuba
Formosa Strait	Taiwan and the Mainland China
Foveaux Strait	the South Island and Stewart Island
Foxe Channel	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	the Melville Peninsula to the north and Southampton Island to the south
Fury and Hecla Strait	Baffin Island and Melville Peninsula

G

Strait	Location
Galowa Strait – a.k.a.	Sele Strait
Strait of Georgia	Vancouver Island and mainland British Columbia
Strait of Gibraltar	Europe and Africa
Golden Gate Strait	Marin County, California and San Francisco – entrance to San Francisco Bay
Great Belt	the islands of Zealand and Funen
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	series of straits between British Columbia and Washington state
Hecate Strait	Haida Gwaii and British Columbia
Honguedo Strait	Anticosti Island and Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec
Strait of Hormuz	Oman and Iran
Hōyo Strait	Kyūshū and Shikoku
Hudson Strait	Baffin Island and Quebec

I

Strait	Location
Indispensable Strait	Guadalcanal and Malaita
Irbe Strait	Latvia and the island of Saaremaa

J

• Jamaica Channel – between Jamaica and Hispaniola in the Caribbean
• Jildo Strait – somewhere around Waigeo (same as Jailolo Strait?)
• Johor Strait or Strait of Johor – between Singapore and the state of Johor of Malaysia
• Jones Sound – between the Canadian islands of Devon Island and the southern end of Ellesmere Island
• Strait of Juan de Fuca – between Vancouver Island, Canada and Olympic Peninsula, United States

K

• Kalmar Strait – between Öland and Småland
• Kane Basin – between Ellesmere Island and Greenland
• Kanmon Strait – between Honshū and Kyūshū
• Kara Strait – between Novaya Zemlya and Vaygach Island in Russia
• Karimata Strait – between Sumatra and Borneo
• Kattegat – between Danish Jutland and Swedish Halland and neighboring provinces.
• Kerch Strait – between Crimea and Russia
• Kildin Strait – between Kildin Island and Kola Peninsula in Russia
• Kill Van Kull – between Staten Island and Bayonne, New Jersey
• Kitan Strait – between Awaji Island and the island Honshū in Japan
• Korea Strait – between Korea and Japan
• Gulf of Kuşadası – between Turkey and the Greek island Samos
• Kvarken – between Sweden and Finland
• Kwangtung Strait

L

• Lancaster Sound – between Canadian islands of Devon and Baffin
• Langeland's Belt – between Danish islands of Langeland and Lolland
• Lembeh Strait – between Sulawesi and Lembeh island in Indonesia
• Little Belt – between the island Funen and mainland Denmark
• Lombok Strait – between Bali and Lombok in Indonesia
• Luzon Strait – between Taiwan and Luzon, Philippines

M

• Straits of Mackinac – between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron / and between Michigan's Upper and Lower Peninsulas
• Main Channel – between Lake Huron and Georgian Bay / and between Ontario's Manitoulin Island and the Bruce Peninsula
• Strait of Magellan – between South America and Tierra del Fuego
• Makassar Strait – between Borneo and Sulawesi
• Malacca Strait or Strait of Malacca – between Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra
• Maliku Kandu – Maldives
• Malta Channel – between Malta and Sicily
• Mare Island Strait – between Mare Island and mainland Solano County in California
• Marie-Galante Passage – Guadeloupe
• Martinique Channel – between Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada
• Maqueda Channel - between Luzon and Catanduanes, Philippines
• Martinique Passage – between Dominica and Martinique
• McClintock Strait between the Canadian islands of Victoria Island and Prince of Wales Island
• McClure Strait – Melville Island and Banks Island
• Menai Strait – between Anglesey and mainland Wales
• Strait of Messina – between Sicily and mainland Italy
• The Minch – between Outer Hebrides and mainland Scotland
• Mindoro Strait – between Mindoro and Palawan in the Philippines
• Mona Passage – between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico
• Myeongnyang Strait – between Jindo Island and mainland South Korea
• Mytilini Strait – between Turkey and the Greek island 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 – between Lake Huron and Lake St. Clair / and 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
• 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 – 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 – between Singapore and Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Skagerrak – separating Denmark from Norway and Sweden
• Smith Sound – between Ellesmere Island and Greenland
• The Solent – between the Isle of Wight and southern Great Britain
• The Sound or Øresund – between Denmark and Sweden
• South Kvarken – between the Finnish Åland and Sweden
• Soya Strait or La Pérouse Strait – dividing Sakhalin (Karafuto) from Hokkaidō
• 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
• Svinesund – between Norway and Sweden
• The Swale – between the Isle of Sheppey and southern Great Britain

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

V

• Viscount Melville Sound – between the Canadian islands of Victoria Island and Prince of Wales Island and the Queen Elizabeth Islands
• Vitiaz Strait – between New Guinea and Long Island

W

• Wantsum Channel – former channel between the Isle of Thanet and the mainland of southern England; now drained, and Thanet now only separated from the mainland by the River Wantsum, a minor drainage channel
• Wetar Strait – between Timor and the Indonesian island of Wetar
• Windward Passage – between Cuba and Hispaniola

Y

• Yucatán Channel – between Mexico and Cuba

See also

• Intercontinental and transoceanic fixed links
• Floating suspension bridge