Actium ( Greek: Ἄκτιον ) was the ancient name of a promontory of western Greece in northwestern Acarnania, at the mouth of the Sinus Ambracius ( Gulf of Arta ) opposite Nicopolis, built by Augustus on the north side of the strait.

The strategic significance of the strait was one of the factors in the decision of the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great to found there in AD 330 his new capital, Constantinople, which came to be known as the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.

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.

But finding the sea guarded by a squadron of Octavian's ships, he retired to winter at Patrae while his fleet for the most part lay in the Ambracian Gulf, and his land forces encamped near the promontory of Actium, while the opposite side of the narrow strait into the Ambracian Gulf was also protected by a tower and a body of troops.

It was not until the latter part of August that troops were brought by land into the neighbourhood of Antony's camp on the north side of the strait.

But during these months not only was Agrippa continuing his descent upon Greek towns and coasts, but in various cavalry skirmishes, Octavian had so far prevailed that Antony abandoned the north side of the strait and confined his soldiers to the southern camp.

On the other side of the strait was Scylla, another sea-monster.

Later, stranded on a makeshift raft, Odysseus was swept back through the strait to face Scylla and Charybdis again.

The Greek name ( Hellespontos ) means “ Sea of Helle ”, and was the ancient name of the narrow strait.

The ancient city of Troy was located near the western entrance of the strait and the strait's Asiatic shore was the focus of the Trojan War.

The " deception " was heightened due to Whidbey's failure to find the strait at first.

Unlike their father, Hesiod was averse to sea travel but he once crossed the narrow strait between the Greek mainland and Euboea to participate in funeral celebrations for one Athamas of Chalcis, where he won a tripod in a singing competition.

His first objective was Malacca, which controlled the narrow strait through which most Far Eastern trade moved.

Section 112 ), describes the Pharos and how it was a key landmark to his subduing Ptolemy XIV's armies ( 48 BC ), describing its strategic importance in his sentences " Now because of the narrowness of the strait there can be no access by ship to the harbour without the consent of those who hold the Pharos.

But on 5 August 1936 the so-called Convoy de la victoria was able to bring at least 2, 500 men across the strait breaking the republican blockade.

In those days it was easier and quicker to cross the strait towards nearby Kolka, Saunags or Mazirbe, than travel by horse large distances inland.

Geologically, the lake was formed after the last ice age about 10, 000 years ago ; when the ice melted, the entire width of Sweden was covered in water, creating a strait between Kattegat and the Gulf of Bothnia.

* 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 ).

It shows a waterfall because the old name of the town ( Fosen ) was misinterpreted as Fossund ( as a compound of foss which means waterfall and sund which means strait ).

This supposed “ strait ” was in fact the Rio de la Plata.

Barkley was the first non-indigenous person to find the strait, unless Juan de Fuca's dubious story was true.

Some lochs could also be called a firth, fjord, estuary, strait or bay.

At its largest, the continent included Tierra del Fuego, separated from South America by a small strait ; New Guinea ; and what would come to be called Australia.

The strait is today called Øresund in Danish and Öresund in Swedish, informally Sundet in both languages.

To these days, the strait between the western shore of the Lake and the Olkhon Island is called Maloye More ( Малое Море ), i. e. " the Little Sea ".

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.

He proved that the Strait of Tartary was not a gulf, but indeed a strait, connected to Amur's estuary by a narrow section later called Nevelskoy Strait.

) Beijing has made no major statements after 2004 which identify one China with the PRC and has shifted its definition of one China slightly to encompass a concept called the ' 1992 Consensus ': both sides of the Taiwan strait recognise there is only one China — both mainland China and Taiwan belong to the same China, but agree to differ on the definition of that one China.

At Chalcis itself, where the strait is narrowest at only 40 m, it is called the Euripus Strait.

These bays connect with the funnel-shaped opening to the Barents Sea via a narrow strait called " gorlo " (, meaning " throat ").

The strait between the island and the mainland is called the Peenestrom ; it is a downstream extension of the valley of the Peene river, which flows into the westernmost part of the Stettin Lagoon.

Until the 1840s the strait was called the " Boca del Puerto de San Francisco " ( Mouth of the Port of San Francisco ).

The name " Hainan " ( 海南 ) describes its location south of the Qiongzhou Strait, while the Leizhou Peninsula is also called Haibei ( 海北 ) as it is located north of the strait.

In 964, in his Book of Fixed Stars, he called it al-Bakr (" the Sheep ") " of the southern Arabs "; he noted that the Cloud is not visible from northern Arabia and Baghdad, but can be seen at the strait of Bab el Mandeb ( 12 ° 15 ' N ), which is the southernmost point of Arabia.

Unaware of the earlier publication, Toss called the butterfly bend the strait bend after the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

The name " Egersund " derives from the Norse name for the strait between Eigerøy and the mainland, which was called Eikundarsund.

The straits were called the Cimmerian Bosporus because of the similarity to the Bosporus strait between Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara ( thence to the Dardanelles and Aegean Sea ), and after the Cimmerians the equestrian nomads on the steppes north of the Black Sea.

These are connected through a narrow strait, scarcely one kilometre wide, between the two rocky promontories called respectively Untere and Obere Nase.

: But Hernando knew that is was the question of a very mysterious strait by which one could sail and which he had seen described on a map in the Treasury of the King of Portugal, the map having been made by an excellent man called Martin de Boemia.

Cebu Strait, sometimes called Bohol Strait ( Filipino: Kipot ng Sugbo ), is a strait in the Philippines that separates the island provinces of Cebu and Bohol.

* 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.

The Massachusetts tribe called the area Nantasket, meaning " at the strait " or " low-tide place.

In 1524 Giovanni da Verrazzano anchored in what is now called The Narrows, the strait between Staten Island and Long Island that connects the Upper and Lower New York Bay, where he received a canoe party of Lenape.

In Indonesia, sepak takraw was spread from nearby Malacca across the strait to Riau islands and Riau area in Sumatra as early as 16th century, where it is also called as Sepak Raga in local Malay tongue, at that time some of Sumatran areas were part of Malacca sultanate.

Magellan's ships entered the strait on November 1, 1520, All Saints ' Day, and it was initially called Estrecho de Todos los Santos ( Strait of All Saints ).