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
 * 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 (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