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- Strait of Magellan | Location, Map, Importance, Climate, & FactsStrait of Magellan, channel linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, between the mainland tip of South America and Tierra del Fuego island. Lying entirely within Chilean territorial waters, except for its easternmost extremity touched by Argentina, it is 350 miles (560 km) long and 2–20 miles (3–32 km) wide.
- Bering Strait - WorldAtlasThere are dozens of straits separating open water bodies, such as oceans, seas, and gulfs. The Pacific Ocean has at least 19 straits of varying length and width. One of the major strategic straits in the Pacific is the Bering Strait, separating two of the world’s largest countries: the United States and Russia.
- Strait - WikipediaA strait is a landform connecting two seas or two water basins. While the landform generally constricts the flow, the surface water still flows, for the most part, at the same elevation on both sides and through the strait in both directions. In some straits there may be a dominant directional current through the strait.
- strait - National Geographic SocietyA strait is a narrow body of water that connects two larger bodies of water. The Strait of Messina, part of which is pictured above, connects the Tyrrhenian Sea (to the west) and the Ionian Sea (to the east). The Strait of Messina is the waterway between the island of Sicily and the southern Italian mainland. Photograph by Patrick McCarthy, MyShot.
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