GK Question: Important Strait in the world
10
Degree Channel:
Connect: Bay of Bengal to Andaman Sea
Separates: Island of Little Andaman from Car Nicobar
Island (of India)
9 Degree Channel:
Connect: Indian Ocean (No other water body)
Separates: Laccadive Islands of Kalpeni from Suheli
Par, and Maliku Atoll (of India)
Bab-el-Mandeb:
Connect: Red Sea to
Gulf of Aden
Separates: Yamen (Asia)
from Djibouti & Eritrea (Africa)
Bass
strait:
Connect: Pacific Ocean
(No other water body)
Separates: Tasmania from
the Australian mainland
Bering
Strait:
Connect: Bering Sea
(Pacific Ocean) to Chukchi Sea (Arctic Ocean)
Separates: Russia from
Alaska (USA)
Bosphorus
Strait:
Connect: Black Sea to
Sea of Marmara
Separates: Asian Turkey
from European Turkey
Cook
Strait:
Connect: Pacific Ocean
(No other water body)
Separates: North Island
from South Islands of New Zealand
Davis
strait:
Connect: Baffin Bay to
Atlantic Ocean
Separates: Greenland from
Nunavut (Canada's Baffin Island)
Denmark
strait:
Connect: Atlantic Ocean
(No other water body)
Separates: Iceland from
Greenland
Dover
strait:
Connect: English
Channel & North Sea
Separates: England from
France
English
Channel:
Connect: North Sea
& Atlantic Ocean
Separates: England from
France
Florida
Strait:
Connect: Gulf of Mexico
to Atlantic Ocean
Separates: Florida (USA)
from Cuba
Gibraltar
Strait:
Connect: Atlantic Ocean
to Mediterranean Sea
Separates: Spain (Europe)
from Morocco (Africa)
Hormuz
strait:
Connect: Gulf of Oman
to Persian Gulf
Separates: UAE & Oman
from Iran
Hudson
strait:
Connect: Atlantic Ocean
to Hudson Bay
Separates: Baffin Island
from Quebec (in Canada)
Magellan
strait:
Connect: Pacific Ocean
to Atlantic Ocean
Separates: Mainland South
America from north and Tierra del Fuego to the south (South America)
Malacca
Strait:
Connect: South China
Sea to Andaman Sea
Separates: Malay
Peninsula from Indonesian island
Mozambique
Strait:
Connect: Indian Ocean
(No other water body)
Separates: Madagascar
from Mozambique
Palk
Strait:
Connect: Bay of Bengal
to Gulf of Mannar
Separates: India from Sri
Lanka
Sunda
Strait:
Connect: Indian Ocean
to Java Sea
Separates: Islands of
Java from Sumatra (Indonesia)
Torres
Strait:
Connect: Arafura Sea to
Coral Sea (Pacific Ocean)
Separates: Australia from
Papua New Guinea
Tsugaru
Strait:
Connect: Sea of Japan
(East Sea) to Pacific Ocean
Separates: Honshu from
Hokkaido (Japan)
Yucatan
Strait:
Connect: Gulf of Mexico
to Caribbean Sea
Separates: Mexico from
Cuba