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The Strait of Otranto (Albanian: Ngushtica e Otrantos; Italian: Canale d'Otranto) connects the Adriatic Sea with the Ionian Sea and separates Italy from Albania. Its width between Punta Palascìa , eastern Salento , and Karaburun Peninsula , western Albania, is less than 72 km (45 miles; 39 nautical miles). [ 1 ]
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The Vlora-Otranto Tunnel is a proposed undersea tunnel that aims to connect Vlorë, in Albania, with Otranto, in Italy, across the Strait of Otranto a narrow strip of water that separates the Adriatic Sea from the Ionian Sea and is about 71 kilometers (44 miles) wide at its narrowest point.
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Locator map of Salento, displayed in red. The Salento peninsula is composed of limestone , dividing the Gulf of Taranto to the west from the Strait of Otranto on the east, with the Adriatic Sea to the north and the Ionian Sea to the south.
The Strait of Otranto, to which the city gives its name, connects the Adriatic Sea with the Ionian Sea and separates Italy from Albania. The harbour is small and has little trade. [7] The lighthouse Faro della Palascìa, at approximately 5 kilometres (3 miles) southeast of Otranto, marks the most easterly point of the Italian mainland.
The return from the Otranto battle—15 May 1917—brought the British cruiser HMS Dartmouth within the range of the UC-25 which had already laid mines off Brindisi. At 13:30, UC-25 torpedoed Dartmouth approximately 36 mi (31 nmi ; 58 km ) off Brindisi, for some time the ship was considered to be lost, but was manned by a rescue crew later and ...
The Action in the Strait of Otranto [also the Battle of the Strait of Otranto (1940)] was the destruction of an Italian convoy on 12 November 1940 during the Battle of the Mediterranean in the Second World War. It took place in the Strait of Otranto in the Adriatic Sea, between the Royal Navy and the Italian Royal Navy (Regia Marina).