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.
| Strait | Location | |
|---|---|---|
| Port Madison and mainland Kitsap County in Puget Sound | ||
| Attu Island and Agattu Island in the Alaskan Aleutians | ||
| Honshu and Awaji | ||
| Lombok and Sumbawa | ||
| the Rat Islands group to the west and the Delarof Islands to the east within the Alaskan Aleutians | ||
| the Virgin Islands and Anguilla | ||
| Anguilla and Saint Martin | ||
| Staten Island and New Jersey | ||
| Dampier Strait (Indonesia), between the Raja Ampat islands of Waigeo and Batanta, province of West Papua |
| Strait | Location | |
|---|---|---|
| Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden / Arabian Sea | ||
| Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti in Africa | ||
| Palawan and Borneo | ||
| Java and Bali | ||
| Vistula Bay and Gdańsk Bay | ||
| Sumatra and Bangka Island (also: Banca, Banka) | ||
| Cape Barren Island/Clarke Island and Tasmania | ||
| Mavudis (also called Y'Ami Island), and Orchid Island | ||
| Mainland Australia and Tasmania | ||
| Beagle Channel | Tierra del Fuego | |
| Newfoundland and Mainland Canada | ||
| Asia and North America | ||
| Former strait between the Gulf of Mexico and the South Bay of the Laguna Madre | ||
| Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea | ||
| Cebu Strait | ||
| Corsica and Sardinia | ||
| Europe and Asia | ||
| Waigeo and the Kawe Islands[1] | ||
| Bougainville Island and Choiseul Island | ||
| British Columbia and Washington state | ||
| South Shetland Islands and Antarctic Peninsula | ||
| Kyūshū and Shikoku | ||
| Burias Pass | Bicol Peninsula and Burias Island |
| Strait | Location | |
|---|---|---|
| Newfoundland and Cape Breton Island | ||
| Turks and Caicos Islands and the Bahamas | ||
| Cape Breton Island and mainland Nova Scotia | ||
| San Pablo Bay and Suisun Bay, California | ||
| Cebu Strait (a.k.a. Bohol Strait) | ||
| Chichagof Island and Admiralty Island, Alaska | ||
| Turkey and Chios | ||
| Prince of Wales Island and mainland Alaska | ||
| Coco Islands and the North Andaman Island | ||
| Colvos Passage | Puget Sound | |
| Corfu and mainland Greece/Albania | ||
| Cozumel Island and the Yucatán Peninsula | ||
| Chichagof Island to its south and the mainland to its north, of Alaska | ||
| Baffin Island's Hall Peninsula and the Cumberland Peninsula, in Canada |
| Strait | Location | |
|---|---|---|
| Dalcahue Channel | Chile: Quinchao Island and Chiloé Island | |
| Dalco Passage | Puget Sound | |
| Dampier Strait (Indonesia) | Bird's Head Peninsula and Raja Ampat Islands | |
| Dampier Strait (Papua New Guinea) | New Britain and Umboi Island | |
| Danish straits | Refers collectively to the Danish straits Oresund, Fehmarn Belt, Little Belt and Great Belt between Scandinavia and Jutland. | |
| Dardanelles | Europe and Asia | |
| Davis Strait | Baffin Island and Greenland | |
| Deception Pass | Puget Sound | |
| Denmark Strait | Greenland and Iceland | |
| La Désirade Passage | Guadeloupe | |
| Detroit River | Connects Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie. Separates the province of Ontario, Canada, and the state of Michigan, USA (The word "détroit" is French for "strait".) | |
| Dixon Entrance | Alaska and British Columbia | |
| Dolphin and Union Strait | Northwest Territories and Victoria Island | |
| Dominica Passage | Dominica and Guadeloupe | |
| Dragon's Mouths (Bocas del Dragón) | Trinidad and Venezuela | |
| Drake Passage | South America and Antarctica |
| Strait | Location | |
|---|---|---|
| Manhattan, the Bronx and Long Island | ||
| Korean Peninsula and the Iki Island | ||
| Great Britain and France | ||
| the Island of Euboea and the Greek mainland on the Aegean |
| Strait | Location | |
|---|---|---|
| West Falkland and East Falkland | ||
| Fehmarn and Lolland | ||
| Fehmarn and the German mainland | ||
| Canada: Southampton Island (to the north-west) and Coats Island (to the south-east) | ||
| Florida and Cuba | ||
| Taiwan and the Mainland China | ||
| New Zealand, between the South Island and Stewart Island | ||
| Canada: the Foxe Basin (to the north) from Hudson Bay and the Hudson Strait (to the south) | ||
| Canada: the Melville Peninsula to the north and Southampton Island to the south | ||
| Canada: Baffin Island and Melville Peninsula |
| Strait | Location | |
|---|---|---|
| Galowa Strait, or Sele Strait | Salawati Island, New Guinea | |
| Vancouver Island and mainland British Columbia | ||
| Europe (Spain) and Africa (Morocco) | ||
| Marin County, California and San Francisco – entrance to San Francisco Bay | ||
| The islands of Zealand and Funen (Denmark) | ||
| North of Guadeloupe, West Indies | ||
| The Scottish islands of Jura and Scarba | ||
| India and Sri Lanka | ||
| Gulf Trough (a.k.a. Suwannee Strait) | (Prehistoric) |
| Strait | Location | |
|---|---|---|
| Hall Basin | Ellesmere Island and Greenland | |
| Harlem River | Manhattan and The Bronx | |
| Haro Straits | A series of straits between British Columbia and Washington state | |
| Hecate Strait | Canada: Haida Gwaii and British Columbia | |
| Honguedo Strait | Canada: Anticosti Island and Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec | |
| Strait of Hormuz | Oman and Iran | |
| Hōyo Strait | Japan: Kyūshū and Shikoku | |
| Hudson Strait | Canada: Baffin Island and Quebec |
| Strait | Location | |
|---|---|---|
| Jamaica and Hispaniola in the Caribbean | ||
| Waigeo[2] (same as Jailolo Strait?[3]) | ||
| Devon Island and the southern end of Ellesmere Island | ||
| Vancouver Island, and Olympic Peninsula |
| Strait | Location |
|---|---|
| Sweden:Öland and Småland | |
| Ellesmere Island and Greenland | |
| Japan: Honshū and Kyūshū | |
| Indonesia: Sumatra and Borneo | |
| Jutland and Halland and neighboring provinces. | |
| Crimea and Russia | |
| Sound of Kilbrannan | Scotland: Between Kintyre Peninsula and the island of Arran |
| Staten Island and Bayonne, New Jersey | |
| Korea and Japan | |
| Turkey and Samos, Greece | |
| Sweden and Finland | |
| Kwangtung Strait |
| Strait | Location | |
|---|---|---|
| Devon Island and Baffin Island | ||
| Langeland's Belt | Langeland and Lolland | |
| Sulawesi and Lembeh island | ||
| Island of Funen and mainland Denmark | ||
| Strait | Location | |
|---|---|---|
| Connects Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. Separates Michigan's Upper and Lower Peninsulas | ||
| South America and Tierra del Fuego | ||
| Connects Lake Huron and Georgian Bay. Separates Ontario's Manitoulin Island and the Bruce Peninsula. | ||
| Borneo and Sulawesi | ||
| Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra | ||
| Maldives | ||
| Malta and Sicily | ||
| Mare Island and mainland Solano County in California | ||
| Marie-Galante Passage | Guadeloupe | |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada | ||
| Dominica and Martinique | ||
| Islands of Victoria Island and Prince of Wales Island | ||
| Melville Island and Banks Island | ||
| Anglesey and mainland Wales | ||
| Sicily and Italian peninsula | ||
| Outer Hebrides and mainland Scotland | ||
| Hispaniola and Puerto Rico | ||
| Jindo Island and Korean peninsula | ||
| Turkey and the island of Lesbos |
| Name | Country | Details | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Viscount Melville Sound | Canada | Between Victoria Island and Prince of Wales Island and the Queen Elizabeth Islands | |
| Vitiaz Strait | Papua New Guinea | Between New Guinea and Long Island | |
| Wantsum Channel | England | Former channel between the Isle of Thanet and the mainland of Kent; now drained, and Thanet now only separated from the mainland by the River Wantsum, a minor drainage channel | |
| Wetar Strait | East Timor Indonesia | Between East Timor and the Indonesian island of Wetar | |
| Windward Passage | Cuba Haiti | Between Cuba and Hispaniola | |
| Yucatán Channel | Cuba Mexico |