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The strait is named after Robert Palk, who was a governor of Madras (1755–1763) during the Company Raj period. The unique feature around Palk Strait is that the waves around it, to its north and south are of high contrast. To the north, the waves of Bay of Bengal are mostly swells waves [2] while that on the south, in Palk Bay, are mostly sea ...
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
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Sri Lanka, [c] historically known as Ceylon, [d] and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait.
The basin is bordered by the basin of the Vellar River to the south and west, the basin of the Agniyar River to the north, and the Palk Strait to the east. [4] In 2001, about 307,000 people inhabited the basin, [7] in which the largest settlement is Alangudi, which had a population of 12,367 people in 2011. [2]
The Palk Strait Bridge and Tunnel is a proposed 23-kilometre (14 mi) road and rail bridge and tunnel over the Palk Strait between Dhanushkodi in Tamil Nadu (a state in Southern India) and Talaimannar on Mannar Island, an island off the northwestern coast of Sri Lanka. During the 2002-2004 Peace Accord, the then Prime Minister, Ranil ...
Map of the Dispute of Eastern Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and the Strait of Magellan between Argentina and Chile (1842–1881). The East Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and Strait of Magellan Dispute [1] or the Patagonia Question was the boundary dispute between Argentina and Chile [2] during the 19th century [3] [4] for the possession of the southernmost territories of South America [5] on the ...
The border between North America and South America is at some point on the Darién Mountains watershed that divides along the Colombia–Panama border where the isthmus meets the South American continent (see Darién Gap). Virtually all atlases list Panama as a state falling entirely within North America and/or Central America. [116] [117]