List of straits

A

Agate Pass - Puget Sound

Agattu Strait - Aleutians

Akashi Strait - Japan

Alas Strait - between Lombok and Sumbawa in Indonesia

Alor Strait - Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia

Amchitka Pass - Aleutians

Anegada Passage - between the Virgin Islands and Anguilla

Anguilla Channel - between Anguilla and Saint Martin

Arthur Kill - between Staten Island and New Jersey

Augusta's Strait - a.k.a. Dampier Strait (Indonesia)

B

Bab-el-Mandeb - connects Red Sea to Gulf of Aden / Arabian Sea

Bab Iskender - between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti in Africa

Balabac Strait - between Palawan, Philippines and Borneo

Bali Strait - between the Indonesian islands of Java and Bali

Strait of Baltiysk - between Vistula Bay and Gdansk Bay

Bangka Strait - between Sumatra and Bangka Island (also: Banca, Banka)

Banks Strait - between Cape Barren Island/Clarke Island and Tasmania

Bashi Channel - between Mavudis (also called Y'Ami Island), Philippines and Orchid Island, Taiwan

Bass Strait - between mainland Australia and Tasmania

Beagle Channel - Tierra del Fuego

Strait of Belle Isle - between Newfoundland and mainland Canada

Bering Strait - between Asia and North America

Bohai Strait - between Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea

Bohol Strait - a.k.a. Cebu Strait

Strait of Bonifacio - between Corsica and Sardinia

Bosporus - between Europe and Asia

Bougainville Strait (Indonesia) - between Waigeo and the Kawe Islands

Bougainville Strait (Solomon Islands) - between Bougainville Island and Choiseul Island

Boundary Pass - between British Columbia and Washington state

Bransfield Strait - between South Shetland Islands and Antarctic Peninsula

Bungo Channel - between Kyūshū and Shikoku in Japan

C

Cabot Strait - between Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island

Caicos Passage - between Turks and Caicos Islands and the Bahamas

Strait of Canso - between Cape Breton Island and mainland Nova Scotia

Carquinez Strait - connects San Pablo Bay and Suisun Bay, California

Cebu Strait (a.k.a. Bohol Strait) - between Bohol and Cebu in the Philippines

Chatham Strait - between Chichagof Island and Admiralty Island, Alaska

Chios Strait - between Turkey and the Greek island Chios

Clarence Strait - between Prince of Wales Island and mainland Alaska

Coco Channel - between the Burmese Coco Islands and the Indian North Andaman Island

Colvos Passage - Puget Sound

Cook Strait - between the North Island and South Island of New Zealand

Straits of Corfu - between the Greek island Corfu and mainland Greece/Albania

D

Dalcahue Channel - between Quinchao Island and Chiloé Island

Dalco Passage - Puget Sound

Dampier Strait (Indonesia) - between Bird's Head Peninsula and Raja Ampat Islands

Dampier Strait (Papua New Guinea) - between New Britain and Umboi Island

Danish straits - between Scandinavia and Jutland

Dardanelles - between Europe and Asia

Davis Strait - between Baffin Island and Greenland

Deception Pass - Puget Sound

Denmark Strait - between Greenland and Iceland

La Désirade Passage - Guadeloupe

Detroit River - between Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie

Dixon Entrance - between Alaska and British Columbia

Dolphin and Union Strait - between Northwest Territories and Victoria Island

Dominica Passage - between Dominica and Guadeloupe

Strait of Dover - the narrowest part of the English Channel between Great Britain and France

Dragon's Mouths (Bocas del Dragón) - between Trinidad and Venezuela

Drake Passage - between South America and Antarctica

E

East River - between Manhattan, the Bronx and Long Island

English Channel - between Great Britain and France

Euripus Strait - between the Island of Euboea and Greece mainland on the Aegean

F

Falkland Sound - between West Falkland and East Falkland

Fehmarn Belt - between the German island Fehmarn and the Danish island Lolland

Fehmarn Sound - between German island Fehmarn and the German mainland

Straits of Florida - between Florida and Cuba

Formosa Strait - between Taiwan and the Chinese mainland

Foveaux Strait - between the South Island and Stewart Island of New Zealand

Fury and Hecla Strait - between Baffin Island and Melville Peninsula

G

Galowa Strait - a.k.a. Sele Strait

Strait of Georgia - between Vancouver Island and mainland British Columbia, Canada

Strait of Gibraltar - between Europe and Africa

Golden Gate Strait - between Marin County, CA and San Francisco, CA - entrance to San Francisco Bay

Great Belt - between the islands of Zealand and Funen in Denmark

Guadeloupe Passage - north of Guadeloupe, West Indies

Gulf of Mannar - between India and Sri Lanka

Gulf Trough (a.k.a. Suwannee Strait) - (prehistoric)

H

Hall Basin - between Ellesmere Island and Greenland

Harlem River - between Manhattan and The Bronx

Haro Straits - series of straits between British Columbia and Washington state

Hecate Strait - between Haida Gwaii and British Columbia

Honguedo Strait - between Anticosti Island and Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec

Strait of Hormuz - between Oman and Iran

Hōyo Strait - between Kyūshū and Shikoku in Japan

Hudson Strait - between Baffin Island and Quebec

I

Irbe Strait - between Latvia and the island of Saaremaa in Estonia

J

Jamaica Channel - between Jamaica and Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea

Jildo Strait - somewhere around Waigeo (same as Jailolo Strait?)

Johor Strait or Strait of Johor - between Singapore and the state of Johor of Malaysia

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

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

Langeland's Belt - between Danish islands of Langeland and Lolland

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 Michigan's Upper and Lower Peninsulas

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 - California

Marie-Galante Passage - Guadeloupe

Martinique Channel - between Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada

Martinique Passage - between Dominica and Martinique

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 Strait or Straits of Niagara - 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 - between Northern Ireland and Scotland

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)

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

Port Washington Narrows - Puget Sound

Porte des Morts - between Green Bay and Lake Michigan

Q

Qiongzhou Strait - Hainan and Guangdong

R

Revenges Strait - a.k.a. Sele Strait

Rich Passage - Puget Sound

Robeson Channel - between Ellesmere Island and Greenland

S

Sagewin Strait - a.k.a. Pitt Strait (Indonesia)

Saint-Barthélemy Channel - between Saint Barthélemy and Saint Martin

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

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 del Serpiente) - between Trinidad and Venezuela

Shelikof Strait - between mainland Alaska and Kodiak Island

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 Islands and Sweden

Soya Strait or La Pérouse Strait - dividing Sakhalin (Karafuto) from Hokkaidō

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

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

Tsushima Strait - between Iki Island and the Korean Peninsula

Turkish Straits - collectively refers to the Turkish straits the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles

V

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

Yucatan Channel - between Mexico and Cuba