BY- SUHELICA ROY

MAJOR STRAITS OF ENROLLMENT NO.- A91207220005

COURSE- CARGO MANAGEMENT

THE WORLD COURSE CODE- TTA 332

WHAT IS A STRAIT?
A strait is a narrow navigable
waterway that connects two larger
water bodies.
 It lies between two land masses
and formed naturally or by man-
made.
 The term strait is typically
reserved for much larger, wider
features of the marine
environment.
 It is used for transporting goods
or people in the world and control
the sea and shipping routes of the
entire region in the world.
 SOME FACTS ABOUT STRAITS

 Longest Strait in the World- Strait of Malacca which separates the

Malay Peninsula from Sumatra island of Indonesia.
 Widest Strait in the World- The Denmark Strait or Greenland strait,
between Greenland and Iceland.
 Shallowest Strait in the World- Sunda strait, which separates the
Java Sea from the Indian Ocean.
 Smallest or Narrowest Strait in the World- Bosphorus strait, which
separates the Black Sea from the Marmara Sea.
 IMPORTANCE OF STRAITS

 Seaborne trade for commercial shipping

 Vital oil producing region
 Play vital role in geo-politics
 Modifies the climate.
 GIBRALTAR STRAIT:-
This narrow strait is connecting
the Mediterranean Sea with
the Atlantic Ocean, lying between
southernmost Spain and
northwesternmost Africa. This strait
was called as Pillars of Hercules by
Ancient Greeks.

HORMUZ STRAIT:-
This strait is linking the Persian
Gulf with the Gulf of Oman and
the Arabian Sea. It separates Iran
from the Arabian Peninsula. Oil
tankers collected from various
ports on the Persian Gulf passes
through this strait.
 BERING STRAIT:-
This strait is linking the Arctic ocean
with the Bering Sea and separating the
continents of Asia and North America
at their closest point. The Strait is
named after Vitus Bering, a Danish
explorer in the service of the Russian
Empire.

MALACCA STRAIT:-
This narrow strait is connecting the
Andaman Sea and the South China
Sea. It runs between the Indonesian
island of Sumatra to the west  and
peninsular  Malaysia and extreme
southern Thailand to the east. It is
named after the Malacca
Sultanate that ruled over the strait.
 FLORIDA STRAIT:-
This strait is located south-southeast of
the North American mainland, generally
accepted to be between the Gulf of
Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean, and
between the Florida Keys (U.S.)
and Cuba. The strait carries the Florida
Current, the beginning of the Gulf
Stream, from the Gulf of Mexico.

YUCATAN STRAIT:-
This strait is connecting the Gulf of
Mexico and the Caribbean Sea
between Cape Catoche, Mexico,
and Cape San Antonio, Cuba.
 DOVER STRAIT:-
This strait connects North Sea with
English channel. Broadly speaking, it
is the narrowest part of English
channel which opens near the north
sea and separates Great Britain from
France. Most of the swimmers who
cross English channel use this strait
for swimming across.

TARTAR STRAIT:-
This strait is in the Pacific
Ocean, dividing the Russian island
of Sakhalin from mainland Asia,
connecting the Sea of Okhotsk on the
north with the Sea of Japan on the
south.
 PALK STRAIT:-
This is a strait between the Tamil
Nadu state of India and the Jaffna
District of the Northern Province of
the island nation of Sri Lanka,
connecting the  Bay of Bengal in the
northeast with Palk Bay in the
southwest.

BASS STRAIT:-
This is a strait between Point Hicks
on the mainland of Australia and
Cape Portland on the north-eastern
edge of Tasmania Island. The Bass
Strait is surrounded by the Bassian
Rise plateau on its eastern side and
the King Island Rise plateau on its
western side.
 TAIWAN STRAIT:-
Referred to as the Formosa Strait, this
strait extends from the South China
Sea in the southwest to the East China
Sea in the northeast. It runs between
the coast of the Fujian Province and
the island of Taiwan. It serves as a
busy navigational waterway, on which
millions of tons of cargo are ferried
annually.

DARDANELLES STRAIT:-
This is a narrow strait in north-western
Turkey linking the Aegean Sea with
the Sea of Marmara allowing for
passage to the Black Sea via
the Bosporus Strait.
 SUNDA STRAIT:-
This strait is situated between
the Indonesian islands of Sumatra in
the northwest and Java in the
southeast, linking with the Java Sea
of the western Pacific Ocean with the
eastern Indian Ocean.

COOK STRAIT:-
This strait connects the Tasman Sea on
the northwest with the South Pacific
Ocean on the southeast. Regular ferry
services run across the strait
between Picton in the Marlborough
Sounds and Wellington.
 TORRES STRAIT:-
This is a strait between Australia
and the Melanesian island of New
Guinea. It is named after the
Spanish navigator Luís Vaz de
Torres, who sailed through this
strait.

LOMBOK STRAIT:-
This is a strait connecting the Java
Sea to the Indian Ocean and is located
between the islands of Bali and Lombok
in Indonesia. The Lombok Strait is
notable as one of the main passages for
the Indonesian Throughflow that
exchanges water between the Indian
Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.
 TIRAN STRAIT:-
This strait is between the Egyptian
mainland and Tiran Island separates
the Gulf of Aqaba from the Red Sea. It
provides two channels navigable by
large ships bound for ports in Jordan
and Israel.

MESSINA STRAIT:-
This strait is a narrow strip of water
separating mainland Italy and the
island of Sicily. It connects the Ionian
Sea and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the
south and north. Messina is connected
to mainland Italy at Villa San Giovani
by a ferry service.
 MAKASSAR STRAIT:-
This strait is a narrow passage found
on the west-central Pacific Ocean in
Indonesia. It is located between the
Borneo and Sulawesi islands in
Indonesia.

TEN DEGREE CHANNEL:-

This channel separates the Andaman
Islands and Nicobar Islands from
each other in the Bay of Bengal. It is
so named as it lies on the 10-degree
line of latitude, north of the equator.
CONCLUSION
Basically, straits are formed by
a fracture in an isthmus, a narrow
body of land that connects two bodies
of water. A strait can also be formed
by a body of water overflowing land
that has subsided or has been eroded.
Historically, straits have had
great strategic importance. Whoever
controls a strait is likely to control
the sea and shipping routes of the
entire region.
Straits used for international
navigation through the territorial sea
between one part of the high seas or
an exclusive economic zone and
another part of the high seas or
an exclusive economic zone are
subject to the legal regime of transit
passage.