Strait
a strait (also: Meeresstrasse; English. sound [saʊnd], strait [stɹeɪt]; in the Scandinavian languages: Sund [sɵnd]) is a place of a sea, to itself two the land massesclose come and so a bottleneck of the sea form. Straits are (and were above all in former times) from great strategic importance for the navigation. The counterpart is the land tightness.
Straits were already in the antiquity due to their strategic meaning desiredAreas. Their control could lend substantial power, therefore they were often object of political influencing control.
The Bosphorus and the Dardanellen were in history particularly contest. It is assumed that the Trojan war was not least led, around control of Trojasto terminate over the Dardanellen. In the CAN dia. war (around Crete) the Venezianer blocked in 17. Century aimed the Dardanellen, in order to worsen the supply situation in the Osmani realm, particularly in Istanbul. The question around control of Bosphorus andDardanellen contributed 1914 to the connection of the Osmani realm to the Central Powers , successfully with whose assistance the Turks could defend the straits 1915/1916 in the battle of Gallipoli in the First World War against the Entente, before the Osmani realm finally 1918broke down.
In order to bring the road of Gibraltar and with it the sea route of the Atlantic ocean into the Mediterranean under control, Great Britain conquered 1704 together with the Dutchmen Gibraltar and made rock and city 1830 the British crowning colony. It becamein particular with the opening of the Sueskanals still more importantly, since it secured with it also the sea route to the British colony India.
By the maritime law it sübereinkommen is internationally guaranteed that ships and aircraft have the right of the unhindered transit passage by straits. However appliesin a strait, which is formed by an island of a strait neighboring country and its mainland, this right not, if seewärts the island a sea route equally suitable in navigational and hydrographic regard is present by the high sea or an exclusive economic zone.
further straits:
- North Sea - Atlantic
- English Channel with Solent between Great Britain and France
- Baltic Sea including Kattegat
- Öresund between sea-country and the Swedish care
- of large Belt between the Danish islands Fünen and sea-country
- of small Belt between Fünen and Jutland
- Fehmarnbelt between Fehmarn and Lolland
- Fehmarnsund between Fehmarn and German mainland (Wagrien)
- Strelasund between Stralsund and Rügen
- Atlantic - Norwegian sea
- Suðuroyarfjørður between Suðuroy and the remaining Färöern
- black sea - Asow sea
- Tyrrheni sea - Ioni sea
- road of Bonifacio between Korsika and Sardinien
- road of Messina between Kalabrien and Sicily
- road of Tunis between Sicilies and Tunesien
- Adriati sea - Ioni sea
- road of Otranto between Apulien and Albania
- Ägäis
- Arab sea - Persian Gulf
- road of Hormuz between Persia and Oman
- Red Sea
- Bab aluminium Mandab - connection to the gulf of Aden
- Indian ocean - Pacific ocean
- road of Malakka between Sumatra and the Malaii peninsula
- roadof Johor between the Malaii peninsula and Singapore
- Sundastrasse between Sumatra and Java
- Lombokstrasse between Bali and Lombok
- torr eating race between new Guinea and north Australia
- bass road between Victoria and Tasmanien
- Japanese sea - Pacific ocean
- of Tatari Sund between Sachalin and Amurgebiet
- La-Pérouse-road between Sachalin and Hokkaidō
- Tsugarustrasse between Hokkaidō and Honshū
- inland lake between Honshū, Shikoku and Kyūshū
- Korea route between Kyūshū and Korea
- Pacific ocean - round Vancouver Iceland (Canada)
- Pacific ocean - bay of San Francisco
- golden gate north of San Francisco
- Atlantic ocean - Pacific ocean
- Magellan route between Patagonien and fire country
- Pacific ocean - arctic ocean
- the Bering Strait between Alaska and Siberia
- Atlantic Arctic ocean:
- Davisstrasse between Canada and Greenland; it connects the Labradorsee with the Baffin Bay
- Naresstrassebetween Greenland and the Ellesmere island; it connects the Baffin Bay with the Lincoln lake and becomes in the further process also Kennedy and/or. Robe on channel mentioned.
