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Strait of Malacca. The Strait of Malacca is a narrow stretch of water, 800 kilometres (500 mi) long and from 65 to 250 km (40–155 mi) wide, between the Malay Peninsula to the northeast and the Indonesian island of Sumatra to the southwest, connecting the Andaman Sea (Indian Ocean) and the South China Sea (Pacific Ocean). [2]
Strait of Belle Isle – between Newfoundland and mainland Canada. Bering Strait – between Asia and North America. Boca Chica Pass – an historical strait between the Gulf of Mexico and the South Bay of the Laguna Madre. Bohai Strait – between Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea. Bohol Strait – a.k.a. Cebu Strait.
700 metres (2,300 ft) The Skagerrak (Danish: [ˈskɛːjɐˌʁɑk], Norwegian: [ˈskɑ̀ːɡərɑk], Swedish: [ˈskɑ̌ːɡɛrak]) is a strait running between the Jutland peninsula of Denmark, the east coast of Norway and the west coast of Sweden, connecting the North Sea and the Kattegat sea. The Skagerrak contains some of the busiest shipping ...
The strait is one of the busiest international seaways in the world, used by over 400 commercial vessels daily. [3] This has made traffic safety a critical issue, with HM Coastguard and the Maritime Gendarmerie maintaining a 24-hour watch over the strait and enforcing a strict regime of shipping lanes. [5]
The world's busiest shipping lane is the Dover Strait. 500–600 vessels per day traverse the narrow strait and in 1999 1.4 billion tonnes gross, carried by 62,500 vessels passed through the strait. [2]
The Singapore Strait is a 113 km-long (70 mi), 19 km-wide (12 mi) [2] strait between the Strait of Malacca in the west and the South China Sea in the east. Singapore is on the north of the channel, and the Indonesian Riau Islands are on the south. The two countries share a maritime border along the strait. It includes Keppel Harbour and many ...
The HH Ferry route, between Helsingør, Denmark and Helsingborg, Sweden, in the northern part of Øresund, is one of the world's busiest international ferry routes, with more than 70 departures from each harbour per day. [8] Øresund is a geologically young strait that formed 8,500–8,000 years ago as a result of rising sea levels.
In 2006, an estimated 3.3 million barrels (520,000 m 3) of oil passed through the strait per day, out of a world total of about 43 million barrels per day (6,800,000 m 3 /d) moved by tankers. [6] This rose by 2014 to 5.1 million barrels per day (b/d) of crude oil, condensate and refined petroleum products headed toward Europe, the United States ...