IMPORTANT STRAITS

IMPORTANT STRAITS

NAME	SEPARATES	CONCEPTS
Strait of Gibraltar (Known as ‘Key to the Mediterranean’)	Europe and Africa	Mediterranean sea with Atlantic Ocean.
Strait of Boniface	Sardine Islands. (Italy) and Corsica (France )	Tyrrhenian Sea with Mediterranean Sea.
Strait of Messina	Sicily and peninsular Italy	Tyrrhenian Sea with Mediterranean Sea
Strait of Otranto	Italy and Balkan Peninsula	Adriatic sea with Ionian Sea.
Bosporus Strait	Istanbul and Anatolia Peninsula (turkey)	Black sea with sea of Marmana.
Strait of Kerch	Kerch (Ukraine) and Russia	Sea of Azov with Black Sea.
Dardanelles Strait	Balkan Peninsula and Anatolia Peninsula	Sea of Marmara with Aegean sea

IMPORTANT STRAITS

   

STRAIT: a narrow sea passage that links two larger areas of seas.
NAME	SEPARATES	CONNECTS
Nacres strait	Greenland and ellesmere island	Arctic ocean and Baffin bay
Davis strait	Greenland and basin island	Baffin bay and Labrador sea
Hudson strait	Baffin island and Ungava peninsula (Quebec)	Hudson bay and Labrador sea.
Belle isle strait	Labrador and new found land	Gulf of st. Lawrence and Atlantic ocean.
Florida strait	Florida and Cuba.	Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic ocean.
Yucatan strait	Yucatan peninsula (NE Mexico ) and Cuba	Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean sea.
Juan de fuci strait	Washington and Vancouver island
Bering strait	Chukchi peninsula, Russia (Asia) and Alaska (north America)	Arctic ocean and Bering sea.