To most observers, there is little doubt that he placed an artificial strait jacket of unity upon the years of Anne's reign which in reality existed only in the pages of his history.

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.

The world's narrowest strait used for international navigation, it connects the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara ( which is connected by the Dardanelles to the Aegean Sea, and thereby to the Mediterranean Sea.

Between the limits, the strait is long, with a width of at the northern entrance and at the southern entrance.

Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, have, since the 1950s, celebrated both Dominion or Canada Day and the United States ' Independence Day with the International Freedom Festival ; a massive fireworks display over the Detroit River, the strait separating the two cities, is held annually with hundreds of thousands of spectators attending.

(;, Hellespontos, literally " Sea of Helle "), is a narrow strait in northwestern Turkey connecting the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara.

The strait is long but only wide, averaging deep with a maximum depth of.

The strait is an international waterway, and together with the Bosphorus, the Dardanelles connects the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.

At this point, the strait is narrowest.

The Turkish name Çanakkale Boğazı is derived from the major city adjoining the strait, Çanakkale ( which takes its name from its famous castles ; kale means " castle ").

The very narrow and winding shape of the strait is more akin to that of a river.

Xerxes is then said to have thrown fetters into the strait, given it three hundred lashes and branded it with red-hot irons as the soldiers shouted at the water.

Deception Pass is a strait separating Whidbey Island from Fidalgo Island, in the northwest part of the U. S. state of Washington.

In contrast, the KMT or pan-blue coalition agrees that the Republic of China is an independent and sovereign country that is not part of the PRC, but argues that a one China principle ( with different definitions across the strait ) can be used as the basis for talks with the PRC.

However, today, the Detroit River is rarely referred to as a strait, because bodies of water referred to as straits are typically much wider.

The river itself became known as the Rivière du Détroit, in which détroit is French for " strait ".

The name Helsingør is derived from the word hals meaning " neck " or " narrow strait ", referring to the narrow strait ( Øresund, or The Sound ) between what is now Helsingør and Helsingborg, Sweden.

It is estimated that 10. 5 million immigrants departed for points across the United States from the Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal, located just across a narrow strait.

To the south, across the Sumba strait, is Sumba and to the north, beyond the Flores Sea, is Sulawesi.

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.

An under sea water supply tunnel with a length of, named the Bosphorus Water Tunnel, was constructed in 2012 to transfer water from the Melen Creek in Düzce Province ( to the east of the Bosphorus strait, in northwestern Anatolia ) to the European side of Istanbul, from a distance of.

* November 28 – After navigating through the South American strait, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific ( the strait was later named the Strait of Magellan ).

A small rocky island, appropriately named Kamen Opasnosti ( Russian for " Rock of Danger ") is located in the Russian waters in the northeastern part of the strait.

In Japan, the strait is named after Mamiya Rinzō, who traveled to the strait in 1808 whereof the name was introduced by Philipp Franz von Siebold in his book Nippon: Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan ( 1832 – 54 ).

They renamed Gulf of Tartary to Strait of Tartary, and named the northernmost, narrowest section of the strait, which connects the strait's main body ( formerly known as the Gulf of Tartary ) with the Amur Liman ( Amur River estuary ), in the captain's honour, Strait of Nevelskoy.

On February 22, 2008, it was revealed that a company owned by Tarek bin Laden is planning to build a bridge named Bridge of the Horns across the strait, linking Yemen with Djibouti.

The strait is named after James Cook, the first European commander to sail through it, in 1770.

On the ram the children escaped over the sea, but Helle fell off and drowned in the strait now named after her, the Hellespont.

The strait was named for him, but whether he discovered it or not has long been questioned.

The county is named after the strait between the Door Peninsula and Washington Island.

On August 5, 1775 Juan de Ayala and the crew of his ship the San Carlos became the first Europeans known to have passed through the strait, anchoring in a cove behind Angel Island which is now named in Ayala's honor.

The strait between Tierra del Fuego and Isla de los Estados was named the Le Maire Strait in his honor, though not without controversy.

The municipality is named after the strait that flows between the islands of Otrøya and Midøy, the Midsundet ( Old Norse: Miðjusund ).

The municipality is named after the Tjeldsundet strait between the islands of Tjeldøya and Hinnøya.

* The Golden Gate ( the strait that connects the Pacific Ocean to San Francisco Bay ), was named on 1 July 1846 by explorer John C. Frémont who wrote, " To this Gate I gave the name of Chrysopylae, or Golden Gate ; for the same reasons that the harbor of Byzantium was called Chrysoceras, or Golden Horn.

Anadoluhisarı, constructed on an area of 7, 000 m², is situated at the narrowest point with 660 m of the Bosporus strait and next to a creek named Göksu ( ancient Greek name: Aretòs ).

It was Dalrymple who named the strait after Torres.

The name Chappaquiddick comes from an Indian word " cheppiaquidne " meaning " separated island ", so named because this island is separated from Martha's Vineyard by a narrow strait or gut.

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

* Belle Isle ( Newfoundland and Labrador ), an island and strait ( named by French explorer Jacques Cartier )

Cook even named Cape Flattery ( at the northwest tip of modern Washington state ) which is at the mouth of the strait, and instead stopped in Nootka Sound just off the west coast of Vancouver Island at about 49 ° N. His account states " we saw nothing like Strait of Juan de Fuca ; nor is there the least probability that ever any such thing existed.

* The Golden Gate, the strait connecting San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean in the United States, named after the Golden Gate ( Latin: Porta Aurea, Greek: Χρυσή Πύλη, Chrysē Pylē ) of Constantinople ( now Istanbul ), and also after the Golden Horn, an estuary on the Bosphorus in Istanbul