Yesterday, Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev ordered that a bridge should be built across the 4.5km (2.7-mile) wide strait to connect Crimea with Russia.
The Binh Ba Bay, or outer bay, with Binh Ba Island lying off the tip of Point Cam Linh, offers some protection to ships at anchor, but the 1-mile- (1.6-kilometre) wide strait that opens into the inner bay of Cam Linh provides year-round protection from monsoons and typhoons.
A wide strait was located near the present Tsugaru Strait in northern Japan, whereas in the south, where the Tsushima Strait is today, only a narrow waterway existed at most.
During the Late Pliocene, a wide strait between southwestern Hokkaido and northern Honshu, corresponding to the modern Tsugaru Strait, connected the Japan Sea with the North Pacific Ocean (Fig. 2).
However, the dwarf Flores man probably needed to cross a 19 km wide strait from Sundaland to reach Komodo and, although the exact details remain uncertain, the ancestors of Australia's Aborigines must have crossed the broader deep-sea Wallace Line to Near Oceania tens of thousands of years ago.
She first entered the public consciousness in the early 90s, when she seemed to walk straight out of the pages of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City novels, into the role of wide-eyed, strait-laced midwesterner, Mary Ann Singleton in the TV adaptation.
On the evening of July 11th, we entered a thirty-mile-wide strait between the southern end of Novaya Zemlya and Vaygach Island, at the entrance to the Kara Sea.
In the past few years, migrants put off by Spain's increased security measures along the nine-mile-wide Strait of Gibraltar have braved the far longer journey west from Morocco to the Canary Islands.
By contrast, a refugee hoping to reach Europe can pay a smuggler approximately $1,000 (£660) to take them in a dinghy across the six-mile-wide strait between Turkey and the Greek islands.
Even as boats begin plying the narrow channels separating Quemoy and Matsu from the mainland this month, China's newest warship will pass through the 100-mile-wide strait separating the islands from the main island of Taiwan.
