To the north, the Bering Strait connects the Pacific with the Arctic Ocean.

Populations are continuous from the British Isles eastward across Europe and Asia to the Bering Strait.

Other gateways are the Barents Sea Opening (BSO), the Bering Strait and various small channels in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

South America is thought to have been first inhabited by humans when people were crossing the Bering Land Bridge (now the Bering Strait) at least 15,000 years ago from the territory that is present day Russia.

It then passes through the Bering Strait between the Diomede Islands at a distance of 1.5 km (1 mi) from each island.

During much of the Wisconsin era, a land bridge across the Bering Strait allowed the first humans to reach North America from Asia (see Settlement of the Americas).

In some cases, the easiest way to bring it to market would be by sending it through a pipeline across the Bering Strait, and then feeding it into the proposed Alaska gas pipeline.

They were able to cross between the two continents by a land bridge called the Bering Land Bridge, which spanned what is now the Bering Strait, during the Wisconsin glaciation, the last major stage of the Pleistocene beginning 50,000 years ago and ending some 10,000 years ago, when ocean levels were lower than today.

The northern limit of the Bering Sea.

Makassar Strait is a strait between the islands of Borneo and Sulawesi in Indonesia.

The Swede Salomon August Andrée shared these enthusiasms, and proposed a plan for letting the wind propel a hydrogen balloon from Svalbard across the Arctic Sea to the Bering Strait, to fetch up in Alaska, Canada, or Russia, and passing near or even right over the North Pole on the way.

The usual theory of the settlement of the Americas is that earliest ancestors of the peoples of the Americas came from Eurasia over a land bridge which connected the two continents across what is now the Bering Strait during a period of glaciation, when the sea water level was lower.

The Sunda Strait (Indonesian Selat Sunda ) is the strait between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra.

The Torres Strait is a strait which lies between Australia and the Melanesian island of New Guinea.

Victoria Strait is a strait in northern Canada that lies in Nunavut off the mainland in the Arctic Ocean.

The Strait of Tiran and Tiran Island.

The climate of Western Alaska is determined in large part by the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska.

The Third Taiwan Strait Crisis, also called the 1995 1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis or the 1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis, was the effect of a series of missile tests conducted by the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the waters surrounding Taiwan including the Taiwan Strait from July 21, 1995 to March 23, 1996.

Europe Africa fixed link through the Strait of Gibraltar

Europe Africa fixed link through the Strait of Gibraltar

Another European contact with Alaska occurred in 1741, when Vitus Bering led an expedition for the Russian Navy aboard the St. Peter .

This senseless political warfare has hampered cross strait economic relations.

This has increasingly become the biggest obstacle to the growth of cross Strait relations, as well as the biggest immediate threat to peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait.

No one can stop Iran from threatening the Strait of Hormuz.

A narrower Nares Strait connects Baffin Bay with the Arctic Ocean.

On March 9, 1953, from the Gulf of Finland to the Bering Sea, everything stood still likewise in Warsaw, Budapest, Prague, and East Berlin.

Project for a Europe Africa permanent link through the Strait of Gibraltar

The Strait of Malacca joins the Pacific and the Indian Oceans on the west, and Drake Passage and the Strait of Magellan link the Pacific with the Atlantic Ocean on the east.

So is support for distinct countries on each side of the Taiwan Strait.

It is connected to the Atlantic via Davis Strait and the Labrador Sea.

It is separated from the east coast of Sumatra by the Berhala Strait.

Amchitka is said to have been seen and named St. Makarius by Bering in 1741, was sighted by Billings in 1790, and visited by Shishmaref in 1820.

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From the Suez Canal, the route to Indonesia is shorter via the Malacca Strait.

The Yucatán Channel or Straits of Yucatán is a strait between Mexico and Cuba.

A proactive role for the United Nations in maintaining peace in the Taiwan 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).

To the south is the Ombai Strait, and 72 km away, the island of Timor.

Aboriginal Hostels provide 3,300 beds for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across the country.

Bangka lies just east of Sumatra, separated by the Bangka Strait to the north lies the South China Sea, to the east, across the Gaspar Strait, is the island of Belitung, and to the south is the Java Sea.

During World War II, the Battle of the Denmark Strait took place on 24 May 1941.

The city is located on the British Columbia Coast and sits on the Strait of Georgia.

This was the first occasion a ship was navigated through Torres Strait from west to east.

The sea winds from Davis Strait moderate the climate, with the area known for its fogs.

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