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
- Agate Pass – between Port Madison and mainland Kitsap County in Puget Sound
- Agattu Strait – between Attu Island and Agattu Island in the Alaskan Aleutians
- Akashi Strait – between the Japanese islands of Honshu and Awaji
- Alas Strait – between Lombok and Sumbawa in Indonesia
- Alor Strait – Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia
- Amchitka Pass – between the Rat Islands group to the west and the Delarof Islands to the east within the Alaskan 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), between the Raja Ampat islands of Waigeo and Batanta, within the Indonesian province of West Papua
B
- Bab-el-Mandeb – connects the Red Sea to the 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 Gdańsk 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
- Basilan Strait - between Mindanao, Philippines and Basilan, Philippines.
- 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
- Boca Chica Pass – an historical strait between the Gulf of Mexico and the South Bay of the Laguna Madre
- 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[1]
- 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
- Burias Pass - between Bicol Peninsula and Burias Island
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
- Cozumel Channel – between Cozumel Island and the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico
- Cross Sound – between Chichagof Island to its south and the mainland to its north, of Alaska
- Cumberland Sound – between Baffin Island's Hall Peninsula and the Cumberland Peninsula, in Canada
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 – collectively refers to the Danish straits Oresund, Fehmarn Belt, Little Belt and Great Belt 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 / and the province of Ontario, Canada, and the state of Michigan, USA (The word "détroit" is French for "strait")
- 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
- Eastern Channel – between Korean Peninsula and the Iki Island
- English Channel – between Great Britain and France
- Euripus Strait – between the Island of Euboea and the Greek 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
- Fisher Strait – between Southampton Island (to the north-west) from Coats Island (to the south-east)
- 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
- Foxe Channel – between the Foxe Basin (to the north) from Hudson Bay and the Hudson Strait (to the south) of Canada
- Freeman Strait – between Barentsøya and Edgeøya in Svalbard, Norway
- Frozen Strait – between the Melville Peninsula to the north and Southampton Island to the south, in Canada
- 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, California and San Francisco – 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 Corryvreckan - between the Scottish islands of Jura and Scarba
- 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
- Indispensable Strait – between Guadalcanal and Malaita in the Solomon Islands
- Irbe Strait – between Latvia and the island of Saaremaa in Estonia
J
- Jamaica Channel – between Jamaica and Hispaniola in the Caribbean
- Jildo Strait – somewhere around Waigeo[2] (same as Jailolo Strait?[3])
- Johor Strait or Strait of Johor – between Singapore and the state of Johor of Malaysia
- Jones Sound – between t he 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