| Definition/Meaning | Word/Phrase |
|---|
| university town in northwestern Wales on the Menai Strait |
Bangor
|
| Danish explorer who explored the northern Pacific Ocean for the Russians and discovered the Bering Strait (1681-1741) |
Behring
,
Bering
,
Vitus Behring
,
Vitus Bering
|
| part of the North Pacific between Alaska and Siberia; connected to the Arctic Ocean by the Bering Strait |
Bering Sea
|
| strait connecting the Bering Sea to the Arctic Ocean |
Bering Strait
|
| strait connecting the Mediterranean and the Black Sea; separates the European and Asian parts of Turkey; an important shipping route |
Bosporus
|
| town in northern France on the Strait of Dover that serves as a ferry port to England; in 1347 it was captured by the English king Edward III after a long siege and remained in English hands until it was recaptured by the French king Henry II in 1558 |
Calais
|
| strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara that separates European Turkey from Asian Turkey |
Canakkale Bogazi
,
Dardanelles
,
Hellespont
|
| cape on the Strait of Magellan in southern Chile; the most southern point on the mainland of South America |
Cape Froward
|
| northern tip of Cape York Peninsula at the Torres Strait; the northernmost point of the Australian mainland |
Cape York
|
| deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels |
channel
|
| (Greek mythology) a ship-devouring whirlpool lying on the other side of a narrow strait from Scylla |
Charybdis
|
| peninsula of northeastern Siberia across the Bering Strait from northwestern Alaska |
Chukchi Peninsula
|
| part of the Arctic Ocean just north of the Bering Strait |
Chukchi Sea
|
| narrow strait separating the North Island and South Island in New Zealand |
Cook Strait
|
| tidal strait separating Manhattan and the Bronx from Queens and Brooklyn |
East River
|
| mirage in the Strait of Messina (attributed to the Arthurian sorcerer Morgan le Fay) |
fata morgana
|
| strait in western California that connects the San Francisco Bay with the Pacific Ocean; discovered in 1579 by Sir Francis Drake |
Golden Gate
|
| narrow channel or strait |
gut
|
| strait of the North Sea between Jutland and Sweden; connects with the North Sea through the Skagerrak |
Kattegatt
|
| strait between Korea and Japan; connects the East China Sea and the Sea of Japan |
Korean Strait
,
Korea Strait
|
