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Strait and Tartary
* Admiral Nevelskoi explores the Strait of Tartary.
It is connected to the Sea of Japan on either side of Sakhalin: on the west through the Sakhalin Gulf and the Gulf of Tartary ; on the south, through the La Pérouse Strait.
It was not until the expedition of Jean-François de La Pérouse ( 1787 ), who charted most of the Strait of Tartary, but was not able to pass through its northern " bottleneck " due to contrary winds, that the island on European maps assumed a form similar to what is familiar to modern readers.
The Japanese say that it was Mamiya Rinzō who really discovered the Strait of Tartary in 1809.
Sakhalin is separated from the mainland by the narrow and shallow Mamiya Strait or Strait of Tartary, which often freezes in winter in its narrower part, and from Hokkaidō, ( Japan ) by the Soya Strait or La Pérouse Strait.
The Strait of Tartary connects the Sea of Okhostsk to the Sea of Japan.
Accordingly, when La Pérouse charted most of the strait between Sakhalin and the mainland " Chinese Tartary " in 1787, the body of water received the name of the Strait ( or Channel, or Gulf ) of Tartary.
On Russian maps, the short narrowest section of the strait ( south of the mouth of the Amur ) is called Nevelskoy Strait, after Admiral Gennady Nevelskoy, who explored the area in 1848 ; the body of water north of there, into which the Amur River flows, is the Amur Liman ; and the name of " Strait of Tartary " is reserved for the largest section of the body of water, south of Nevelskoy Strait.
S-117 was a Soviet Shchuka class submarine that was lost on or about 15 December 1952, due to unknown causes in the Strait of Tartary in the Sea of Japan.

Strait and Gulf
The island is located east-northeast of the mainland with its northern and western coasts fronting on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence ; its western coast also forming the eastern limits of the Northumberland Strait.
Following the fall of the Shah of Iran and the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979 – 1980, the West became concerned with ensuring the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, and the US received permission for a $ 400 million expansion of the military facilities on Diego Garcia consisting of two parallel runways, expansive parking aprons for heavy bombers, 20 new anchorages in the lagoon, a deep water pier, port facilities for the largest naval vessels in the US or British fleet, aircraft hangars, maintenance buildings and an air terminal, a fuel storage area, and billeting and messing facilities for thousands of sailors and support personnel.
* Gulf Islands, places in the Strait of Georgia, Canada
The Gulf of Oman or Sea of Oman (— Ḫalīdj ʾUmān ; alternatively known as خليج مکران —, Ḫalīdj Makrān ; in Persian: دریای عمان Daryā-ye Ommān, or دریای مکران Daryā-ye Makrān ; in Khaleej Oman ) is a strait ( and not an actual gulf ) that connects the Arabian Sea with the Strait of Hormuz, which then runs to the Persian Gulf.
The Palk Strait and Gulf of Mannar separate India from Sri Lanka to its immediate southeast, and the Maldives are some to the southwest.
Oman occupies a strategic location on the Strait of Hormuz at the entrance to the Persian Gulf, directly opposite Iran.
It borders the Strait of Hormuz, which links the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman, and is separated from the rest of the sultanate by a strip of territory belonging to the UAE.
Turning further east, Piri Reis captured the island of Hormuz in the Strait of Hormuz, at the entrance of the Persian Gulf.
This inland sea of some is connected to the Gulf of Oman in the east by the Strait of Hormuz ; and its western end is marked by the major river delta of the Shatt al-Arab, which carries the waters of the Euphrates and the Tigris.
The Persian Gulf is about 56 kilometres wide at its narrowest, in the Strait of Hormuz.
Geographically the biggest island in the Persian Gulf is Qeshm island located in the Strait of Hormuz and belonging to Iran.
The wildlife of the Persian Gulf is diverse, and entirely unique due to the gulf's geographic distribution and its isolation from the international waters only breached by the narrow Strait of Hormuz.
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 ).
Three bays dominate the island: Gulf of Tomini, Tolo Gulf, and Bone Gulf, while the Strait of Makassar runs the western side of the island.
The United Arab Emirates is situated in Southwest Asia, bordering the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf, between Oman and Saudi Arabia ; it is in a strategic location along northern approaches to the Strait of Hormuz, a vital transit point for world crude oil.
In addition, it helps protect the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz.
In the spring and fall, walruses congregate throughout the Bering Strait, reaching from the western coast of Alaska to the Gulf of Anadyr.
From the time when Islam emerged in the 7th century until the early 16th century, the name Bahrain referred to the wider historical region of Bahrain stretching from Basrah to the Strait of Hormuz along the Persian Gulf coast.

Strait and Tatar
Russia is in the process of building a pipeline across the Tatar Strait from Sakhalin Island to De-Kastri terminal on the Russian mainland.
* Tatar Strait
As part of the project, Russia is in the process of building a pipeline across the Tatar Strait from Sakhalin Island to De-Kastri oil terminal on the Russian mainland.
It is located on the southwest coast of the island of Sakhalin, on coast of the gulf of Nevelsky Tatar Strait of the Sea of Japan, in 83 km to the West from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.
In November 1952 State Committee and participates in the development of the project and give an opinion on the tunnel transition of the Tatar Strait in Sakhalin e.
Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky () is a town in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, located near the Tatar Strait on the western shores of Northern Sakhalin at the foot of the Western Sakhalin Mountains.

Strait and Tartar
The Tartar Strait was a puzzle to European explorers since, when approached from the south, it becomes increasingly shallow and looks like the head of a bay.
In 1956 the Soviet government proposed that a causeway be built at the Tartar Strait to block cold water from flowing into the Sea of Japan therefore raising the temperature in areas around the Sea of Japan.
On August 17, 1864, a squadron consisting of nine British ( Euryalus, Conqueror, Tartar, Leopard, Barrosa, Perseus, Argus, Coquette, and Bouncer ), four Dutch ( Amsterdam, Medusa, Metalen-Kruis, and D ' Jambi ), and three French warships ( Tancrède, Sémiramis, and Dupleix ), together with 2, 000 soldiers, marines and sailors, all under the command of Admiral Sir Augustus Leopold Kuper of the Royal Navy, steamed out of Yokohama to open Shimonoseki Strait.
On 1 July the IRN submarine Keta made contact with two IJN torpedo boats in the Tartar Strait.
His ship ( HMS Tartar ) was one of those that pursued the battleship Bismarck following the Battle of the Denmark Strait although he did not witness her sinking because Tartar went to refuel some hours before the end.

Strait and also
To the east, the boundaries of the ocean proper are Europe ; the Strait of Gibraltar ( where it connects with the Mediterranean Sea – one of its marginal seas – and, in turn, the Black Sea, both of which also touch upon Asia ) and Africa.
The Black Sea is also connected to the Sea of Azov by the Strait of Kerch.
The Bosphorus () or Bosporus (,,, Vosporos,, Bosfora ), also known as the Istanbul Strait (), is a strait that forms part of the boundary between Europe and Asia.
There is also very heavy ferry traffic in the Strait of Istanbul, which crosses between European and Asiatic sides of the city.
The Channel Tunnel (; also referred to as the Chunnel ) is a undersea rail tunnel linking Folkestone, Kent, in the United Kingdom with Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais, near Calais in northern France beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover.
The eastern and southern coasts front the Atlantic Ocean ; its eastern coast also forming the western limits of the Cabot Strait.
The Mi ' kmaq Nation is also assumed to have crossed the present-day Cabot Strait at around this time to settle on the south coast of Newfoundland but were in a minority position compared to the Beothuk Nation.
Later the 17th century Icelandic bishop Guðbrandur Thorlaksson, also used the name Ginnungegap to refer to a narrow body of water, possibly the Davis Strait, separating the southern tip of Greenland from Estotelandia, pars America extrema, probably Baffin Island.
During the Roman period Britain ’ s continental trade was principally directed across the Southern North Sea and Eastern Channel, focusing on the narrow Strait of Dover, though there were also more limited links via the Atlantic seaways.
Many other peoples of the Georgia Strait region also frequented the lower Fraser, including those from Vancouver Island and what is now Whatcom County, Washington.
The Babuyan and Batanes island groups that lie in the Luzon Strait also belong to the region.
It also has maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk, and the U. S. state of Alaska by the Bering Strait.
It is also known as the Straits of Gibraltar, or STROG ( Strait Of Gibraltar ), in naval use and as the " Pillars of Hercules " ( Greek: Ηράκλειες Στήλες ) in the ancient world.
The Stolen Generations ( also known as Stolen children ) were the children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed from their families by the Australian Federal and State government agencies and church missions, under acts of their respective parliaments.
across the Taiwan Strait, and Pratas and Taiping in the South China Sea, are also administered by Taiwan.
Rosario Strait is also a major shipping channel.
It also includes culturally specific terms, such as sistergirl and brotherboy, which are used by some Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
The Strait of Dover is the stretch of water between Dover and Calais, and also the stretch of water the Dover-Calais and Calais-Dover ferries cross.
Ferry transportation across the Kerch Strait was established in 1953, connecting Crimea and the Krasnodar Krai ( Port Krym-Port Kavkaz line ); ( as of November 2009 ) there are also plans for a Kerch-Poti ferry route.
It is separated from the mainland of British Columbia by Johnstone Strait, and Queen Charlotte Strait on the northeast, and by the Strait of Georgia on the southeast, which along with the Strait of Juan de Fuca along its southwest separate it from the United States ( the Straits of Georgia and Juan de Fuca are now officially also part of the Salish Sea, which includes Puget Sound as well ).
Portuguese territory also includes a series of archipelagoes in the Atlantic Ocean ( the Azores and Madeira ), which are strategic islands along western sea approaches to the Strait of Gibraltar and the Mediterranean Sea.

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