Although called a river, the Sakonnet is actually a saltwater strait that separates Rhode (Aquidneck) Island from the mainland to the east.
The majority took the treacherous journey by boat across the Bab-el-Mandeb strait that separates Yemen from the Horn of Africa.
Forced to flee further west, the Taira family was finally completely destroyed in 1185 in the great sea battle of Dannoura, which occurred off the eastern end of the strait that separates Kyushu from Honshu.
THE alcohol stores in Helsingor struggle to close on time, as Swedes cram in to grab a few more bottles before heading back across the Oresund strait that divides these Nordic neighbours.
If the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 were held against a background of rapprochement across the strait, that would greatly assist China's efforts to project itself as a responsible world power.
The lake consists of the shallow Upper Lough Erne, 12 miles (19 km) long, and Lower Lough Erne, 18 miles (29 km) long, linked by a 10-mile (16-kilometre) strait that is part of the River Erne.
Up the Kill Van Kull, a three-mile-long, 1,000-foot-wide 1,000-foot-wide 1,000-foot-wideor with Newark Bay, the contrastraitween thathistoric and the working harbor is found at every bend.
Ships carrying hazardous or combustible materials, for example, will be temporarily prohibited from using the Bosphorous, the strait that links the Black Sea and the Mediterranean and winds through Istanbul.
The move was a pre-emptive measure to protect more than 150,000 square nautical miles north of the Bering Strait that have become more accessible as a result of the warming Arctic climate.
Mr. Landrieu talked with almost fatherly pride about the steps his administration and the president of neighboring St. Tammany Parish had put together to block the oil, including a new kind of boom that was being deployed and a line of barges across the narrow strait that leads into the lake.
In the 1780s in one of the first voyages both to search for new trade opportunities and to collect scientific data, the Frenchman Jean-François de Galaup, Count de La Pérouse, traveled northward through the Sea of Japan and the strait that was named for him.
