The major choke points include Bab el Mandeb, Strait of Hormuz, the Lombok Strait, the Strait of Malacca and the Palk Strait.

Palk Strait connecting Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal

The Palk Strait and Gulf of Mannar separate India from Sri Lanka to its immediate southeast, and the Maldives are some to the southwest.

Known until 1972 as Ceylon (,, or ), Sri Lanka has maritime borders with India to the northwest across the Gulf of Mannar and Palk Strait, and the Maldives to the southwest.

Sri Lanka is separated from the Indian subcontinent by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait.

Rama's Bridge, a shoal " connecting " ( northwestern ) Sri Lanka ( Talaimannar on Mannar, Sri Lanka | Mannar island in that district ) and ( southern ) India ( Dhanushkodi ( extinct )/ Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu | Rameswaram in Ramanathapuram District ) between the Gulf of Mannar ( southwest ) from the Palk Strait ( northeast ).

** A cyclone in the Palk Strait destroys the Indian town of Dhanushkodi, killing 1800 people.

A population exists in the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka, but it is seriously depleted.

* Photo essay on the Palk Strait.

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Gulf of Mannar, Adam's Bridge, Palk Bay, Palk Strait, Bay of Bengal

Adam's Bridge separating Palk Strait from the Gulf of Mannar

In 1964, a cyclone destroyed Dhanushkodi and the railway and caused severe damage along the shores of Palk Strait and Palk Bay.

* Photo essay on the Palk Strait.

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Fortunately, her captain was on shore, and he was at once appointed to command a small yacht called the Neptune, in which he executed surveys of the Palk Strait and Pamben Channel.

While these ports can accommodate deep-draft vessels, the shallow Palk Strait can only accommodate small shallow-draft vessels.

Project boosters emphasize the benefits of a direct shipping route that connects India's east and west coasts without the long trip around Sri Lanka ; environmentalists have warned against the grave damage such a project could cause to the sea life and fisheries of the Palk Strait and the Gulf.

He describes double-ended vessels being used to transport cargo across the strait at Taprobane, or what is now the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka, where the double-ended nature of the vessels allowed them to ferry cargo back and forth without turning around.

The Pamban Bridge () is a cantilever bridge on the Palk Strait connects Rameswaram on Pamban Island to mainland India.

Sethusamudram Ship Channel Project () proposes linking the Palk Bay and the Gulf of Mannar between India and Sri Lanka by creating a shipping channel through the shallow sea sometimes called Setu Samudram, and through the chain of islands variously known as Ramar Palam ( Tamil: இர ா மர ் ப ா லம ் Rāmar pālam ), ram sethu and Adam's Bridge.

The strait is named after Robert Palk, who was a governor of Madras Presidency ( 1755-1763 ) during the Company Raj period.

The species is absent from Sri Lanka, although the birds are found across the Palk Straits, just 30 kilometres away at Rameshwaram.

Point Calimere Wildlife and Bird Sanctuary ( PCWBS ) is a protected area in Tamil Nadu, South India along the Palk Straight where it meets the Bay of Bengal at Point Calimere at the southeastern tip of Nagapattinam District.

The sanctuary, located adjacent to and east of Kodaikarai and Kodaikadu villages, is basically an Island surrounded by the Bay of Bengal to the east, the Palk Straight to the south and swampy backwaters and salt pans to the west and north.

Colonel Arthur Bantry then goes downstairs and learns from his butler, Lorrimer, that there is indeed a body in the library, sees it, calls Police Constable Billy Palk, and then Mrs Bantry calls her friend, Miss Marple ( revealing that the victim has been strangled ).

* Palk strait, between Tamil Nadu state in India and Sri Lanka, the location of Ram Sethu and rich in natural resources.

Due to shallow waters, Sethusamudram presents a formidable hindrance to navigation through the Palk strait.

In September 1845 the recently created Torquay Natural History Society requested permission from Sir Lawrence Palk to explore the caves in order to obtain fossils and artifacts for the planned Torquay Museum, and as a result Edward Vivian and William Pengelly were allowed to conduct excavations between 1846 and 1858.

A chain of low islands and reefs known as Adam's Bridge, also called Ramsethu, which includes Mannar Island, separates the Gulf of Mannar from Palk Bay, which lies to the north between India and Sri Lanka.

In April 1966, braving high tides and shark-infested waters, he swam across the Palk Straits, the sea between India and Sri Lanka.

It connects the Bay of Bengal in the northeast with the Palk Bay and thence with the Gulf of Mannar in the southwest.

The project involves digging a 44. 9 nautical mile ( 83 km ) long deepwater channel linking the shallow water of the Palk Strait with the Gulf of Mannar.

This proposed navagational canal through a 19-mile ( 30 km ) stretch of shallow sea in the Palk Strait would bypass passage around Sri Lanka.

However it was activity from across the Palk Strait that truly set the scene for Hinduism's survival in Sri Lanka.

Annette Maria, daughter of Lawrence Palk, 1st Baron Haldon.

* Vaime Kabur and Gerli Palk: Jaan Kross-Bibliograafia ( Jaan Kross-Bibliography ), Bibilotheca Baltica, Tallinn, 1997, 368 pages.

Arnett was born in Toronto, the son of Edith Alexandra ( née Palk ) and Emerson James Arnett, who was a corporate lawyer and brewer, among other occupations.

In about 1877 it was altered for Lawrence Palk, 1st Baron Haldon.

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