Straits for prelims for the upsc examination

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1. Bab-el-Mandeb Strait
Join:Red Sea & Gulf of Aden
Location:Yemen-Djibouti
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2. Bass Strait
Join:Tasman Sea & South Sea
Location:Australia

3. Bering Strait
Join:Bering Sea & ChuksiSea
Location:Alaska-Russia

4. BosporousStrait
Join:Black Sea and Marmara Sea
Location:Turkey

5. Dardanelles Strait
Join:Marmara Sea and AgeanSea
Location:Turkey

6. Cook Strait
Join:South Pacific Ocean
Location:New Zealand (North & South Islands)

7. Dover strait
Join:English Channel & North Sea
Location:England-France
Strait of Doveror Dover Straitis the narrowest part
of theEnglish Channel

8. English Channel
The English Channel is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separatessouthern
Englandfromnorthern Franceand links to the southern part of the North Sea by
the Strait of Dover at its northeastern end. It is thebusiest shipping area in the
world.

9. Yucatan Strait
Join:Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea
Location:Mexico-Cuba

10. Gibraltar Strait
Join:Mediterranean Sea & Atlantic Ocean
Location:Spain-Morocco
•The Strait of Gibraltar is located atthe southern tip of
theIberian Peninsula.
•The Strait of Gibraltar is anarrow strait thatconnects
theAtlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean
Seaandseparates Gibraltar and PeninsularSpain in Europe
from Morocco in Africa.
•Thetwo continents are separated by 14.3 kilometers of
theocean at the Strait’s narrowest point.
•The Spanish side of the Strait isprotected under El
EstrechoNatural Park.
•On the northern side of the Strait are Spain and
Gibraltar(a British overseas territory in theIberian
Peninsula); whileon the southern side are Morocco and
Ceuta(a Spanish autonomous city in northern Africa).
•Due to its location, the Strait is commonlyused for illegal
immigration from Africa to Europe.

11. Hormuz Strait
Join:Gulf of Persia & Gulf of Oman
Location:Oman-Iran

12. Bohai Strait
The Bohai Sea is connected to the Yellow Sea via theBohai Strait.
The Bohai Sea is a marginal sea which is the north-western extension of
the Yellow Sea.

13. Kerch Strait
•The Kerch Strait is a strait connecting theBlack Seaand theSea of Azov.
•It separates theKerch Peninsula of Crimea from the Taman Peninsula of
Russia’s Krasnodar Krai.

14. Korea Strait
Join:East China Sea and Sea of Japan
Location:Japan and South Korea

15. Magellan strait
Join:Pacific and South Atlantic Ocean
Location:Chile

16. MakkassarStrait
Join:Java Sea & CelebezeSea
Location:Indonesia

17. MesinaStrait
Join:Mediterranean Sea
Location:Italy-Sicily

18. Mozambique Strait
Join:IndianOcean
Location:Mozambique -Madagascar

19. North Channel
Join:Irish Sea & Atlantic Ocean
Location:Ireland-England

20. Palk Strait
Join:Palk Bay & Bay of Bengal
Location:India-Sri Lanka

21. Bonne-FasioStrait
Join:Mediterranean Sea
Location:Corsika—Sardinia

23. Malacca Strait
Joins:Andaman Sea & South China Sea
Location:Indonesia –Malaysia

24. SundaStrait
Join:Java Sea & Indian Ocean
Location:Indonesia

25. Straits of Lombok
Join: Java Sea & Indian Ocean
Location:Indonesia (Bali and Lombok)

26. Taiwan Strait(Formosa Strait)
Join:South China Sea & East China Sea
Location:China-Taiwan

27. Tatar Strait
Join:Japan Sea & Okhotsk Sea
Location:Russia (East Russia-Sakhalin Islands)

28. Ten Degree Channel
Join:The Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal
Location:Car Nicobar Islands and Little Andaman

29. Tsugaru Strait
Join:Japan Sea and Pacific Ocean
Location:Japan (Hokkaido-Honshu Island)

30. Florida Strait
Join:Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean
Location:USA-Cuba