The Honguedo Strait is approximately wide at its narrowest point.

The other is the Honguedo Strait on the south side of Anticosti Island.

fr: Détroit d ' Honguedo

pl: Détroit d ' Honguedo

Only by the 20th century, Honguedo came into use, and in 1934, the Geographic Board of Quebec officially adopted it to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Jacques Cartier's arrival in North America.

Cartier wrote that they later told him this region where they were captured ( Gaspé ) was called by them Honguedo.

The name Honguedo first appeared in the reports of Jacques Cartier of 1535-1536.

The name comes from the French Rivière du Détroit, which translates literally as " River of the Strait ".

That is why the river was originally called the River of the Strait by early French settlers.

A competitor service is operated by Strait Shipping Ltd, using the former French ships Santa Regina and the former Danish Straitsman, under the Bluebridge brand.

Its name is the French equivalent of the Strait of Dover, which it borders.

The name Nord-Pas-de-Calais combines the names of the constituent departments of Nord ( literally ' North ', the northernmost department of France ) and Pas-de-Calais (' Strait of Calais ', the French name of the Strait of Dover ).

A few islanders La Perouse met near what is today called the Strait of Nevelskoy told him that the island is called " Tchoka " ( or at least that is how he recorded the name in French ), and it was used on some maps thereafter.

With Britain involved in the French revolutionary wars, Governor King was concerned that Bass Strait could harbour enemy raiders, and that in peace time it could provide an important trade route and trading base.

Calais overlooks the Strait of Dover, the narrowest point in the English Channel, which is only wide here, and is the closest French town to England.

Their main force would try to destroy the Dutch fleet first, while a squadron under Prince Rupert was sent to block the Strait of Dover against the French – who did not appear.

The Jacques Cartier Strait ( French: Détroit de Jacques-Cartier ) is a strait in eastern Quebec, Canada, flowing between Anticosti Island and the Labrador Peninsula.

Jacques Cartier Strait was officially named for the French explorer Jacques Cartier in 1934 by the Geographic Board of Quebec to commemorate the 400th anniversary of his arrival in North America.

The Northumberland Strait ( French: détroit de Northumberland ) is a strait in the southern part of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence in eastern Canada.

In 1793, the French Revolutionary Wars between Great Britain and France began, and a truce negotiated between Portugal and Algiers ended Portugal's blockade of the Strait of Gibraltar which had kept the Barbary pirates in the Mediterranean.

Later in 1803 the British Governor of New South Wales, fearful that the French might try to occupy the Bass Strait area, sent Colonel David Collins with a party of 300 convicts to establish a settlement at Port Phillip.

He also probably took note of the Canal du Midi and the Canal del Languedoc, built about a century earlier in France which had given the French such good results by making available a navegable waterway from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean without having to navigate around Spain and avoiding the Strait of Gibraltar.

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.

* 1534: French explorer Jacques Cartier visits the Strait of Belle Isle ( Newfoundland ), enters and charts Gulf of St. Lawrence River, landing in Gaspé, July 14.

Belle Isle ( French for ' Beautiful Island ') is an uninhabited island just off the coast of Labrador and north of Newfoundland at the Atlantic entrance to the Strait of Belle Isle which takes its name.

" It was an Allied triumph to detach Portugal from her French alliance: with Lisbon as a base the Allied fleet could dominate the Strait of Gibraltar and cripple French action in the Mediterranean.

The islands are part of the French portion,, of the international Bouches de Bonifacio (" Strait of Bonifacio ") marine park, a nature reserve, signed into legal existence by France and Italy in 1993 for the protection of the strait against passage of ships bearing dangerous chemicals, and implemented in France by a ministerial decree of 1999 detailing the land to be included in the réserve naturelle de Bouches de Bonifacio for the preservation of wild birds, other fauna and flora, fish and nature in general.

He achieved the award during service in the Strait of Otranto and as a result of his meritorious service also received the French Croix de Guerre and the Italian Silver Medal for Military Valour.

The most famous disaster in the Strait of Bonifacio was that of the French frigate Sémillante on February 15, 1855.

Gerlache Strait or De Gerlache Strait or Détroit de la Belgica is a channel / strait separating the Palmer Archipelago from the Antarctic Peninsula.

Before reaching Wellington ( on New Zealand's North Island ), brief stops were made at Port Hardy ( on d ' Urville Island ) and Queen Charlotte Sound ( on New Zealand's South Island ) and Challenger passed through the Cook Strait to reach Wellington.

" The lake is connected to the North Atlantic by natural channels, the Great Bras d ' Or Channel north of Boularderie Island and the Little Bras d ' Or Channel to south of Boularderie Island, connect the northeastern arm of the lake to the Cabot Strait.

The Bras d ' Or is also connected to Atlantic Ocean via the Strait of Canso by means of a lock canal completed in 1869 -- the St. Peters Canal, at the southern tip of the lake.

Unlike the industrial part of CBRM where coal, steel, and manufacturing industries flourished in the early 20th century, and the petroleum, manufacturing, and pulp and paper industries located in the Strait of Canso region since the construction of the Canso Causeway in 1955, Bras d ' Or Lake has no major industries within its watershed aside from logging and gypsum extraction.

* M. amethistina ( Schneider, 1801 ), Amethystine python, found in Indonesia ( Maluku Islands, Timorlaut Islands, Banda, Kai Islands, Aru Islands, Misool, Selawati, most of Western New Guinea, many islands in Geelvink Bay ), Papua New Guinea ( including Umboi Island, Bismarck Archipelago, Trobriand Islands, the d ' Entrecasteaux Islands to Rossel Island, Louisiade Archipelago ), and Australia ( on some islands in the Torres Strait, the northern Cape York Peninsula south including the Atherton Tableland and the eastern foothills of the Great Dividing Range ).

The Highlands are surrounded by water with the Atlantic Ocean on the east, the Cabot Strait to the north and east, the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the north and west, and Bras d ' Or Lake to the south.

Boularderie Island ( pronounced " bull-la-dree ") is an island separating the Cabot Strait from Bras d ' Or Lake on the eastern coast of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.

The extreme northeastern end of the island at Point Aconi fronts the Cabot Strait, whereas the extreme southwestern end at Kempt Head fronts the northern basin of Bras d ' Or Lake.

( d ) to assist in training persons, particularly Aboriginal persons and Torres Strait Islanders, as research workers in fields relevant to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies ;

As the bergs grew larger, Hudson was forced to turn south into what is now Ungava Bay, an inlet of the Great Strait.

It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait.

The physical oceanography of the Aegean Sea is controlled mainly by the regional climate, the fresh water discharge from major rivers draining southeastern Europe, and the seasonal variations in the Black Sea surface water outflow through the Dardanelles Strait.

The Dardanelles Strait, which links the Sea of Marmara and the Aegean Sea, is approximately long and increases in width toward the south.

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.

Although physically separated from the Nova Scotia peninsula by the Strait of Canso, it is artificially connected to mainland Nova Scotia by the long rock-fill Canso Causeway.

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.

The Strait of Canso is completely navigable to Seawaymax vessels, and Port Hawkesbury is open to the deepest-draught vessels on the world's oceans.

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.

It is about long and varies in width from at its widest to in the Strait of Dover.

The city is a port on the river Elbląg which flows into the Vistula Lagoon about 10 km to the north, thus giving the city access to the Baltic Sea via the Russian-controlled Strait of Baltiysk.

When English explorer John Davis, commander of the Desire, one of the ships belonging to Thomas Cavendish's second expedition to the New World, separated from Cavendish off the coast of what is now southern Argentina, he decided to make for the Strait of Magellan in order to find Cavendish.

* 1942 – The heavy cruiser is sunk in the Battle of Sunda Strait with 693 crew members killed, along with which lost 375 men.

Situated at the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea, adjacent to the Strait of Gibraltar ( one of the world's busiest shipping lanes ) and with over 7, 000 ship calls each year, Gibraltar is home to a wealth of shipping expertise and to many specialist companies offering a comprehensive range of support services, most notably the dockyard of Gibdock.

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 Port of Singapore is the busiest port in the Indian Ocean, located in Strait of Malacca where it meets the Pacific.

The distance between Japan and the Korean Peninsula, the nearest point on the Asian continent, is about 200 kilometers at the Korea Strait.

It is separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago.

Kaohsiung (; old names: Takao, Takow, Takau ) is a city located in southwestern Taiwan, facing the Taiwan Strait on the west.

The island is separated from Turkey by the Chios Strait.