seaways straits and passages
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| flows between australia and tasmania | bass strait
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| divides russia and alaska; connects the ___ sea and the arctic ocean | bering strait
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| separates turkey in asia from turkey in europe; connects the marmara and black seas | bosporus
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| between new zealand's main islands | cook strait
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| connects the mediterranean and the sea of marmara | dardanelles (hellespont)
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| known to the french as la manche (the sleeve); lies between england and france; principal islands are isle of wight and channel islands | english channel
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| connects the mediterranean with the atlantic, between africa and europe | strait of gibraltar
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| lies between arabia and iran; links persian gulf with the arabian sea | strait of hormuz
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| arm of the pacific between northwestern washington and south vancouver island; links the pacific with the strait of georgia and the puget sound | strait of juan de fuca
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| links the sea of azov and the black sea | kerch strait
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| joins lakes michigan and huron | mackinac
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| lies between the south american mainland and tierra del fuego | magellan strait
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| runs between sumatra and malaysia | strait of malacca
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| runs between italy and sicily, home of scylla and charybdis | strait of messina
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| was the long-sought route north of america to asia | northwest passage
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| connects the atlantic and pacific oceans across central america | panama canal
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| passes between the red and mediterranean seas in egypt | suez canal
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| passes between java and sumatra | sunda strait
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