strait

About $10 billion was earmarked to build a bridge across the Kerch Strait, with its unpredictable currents during spring floods.

All were led by William Barents, he of the famous strait, who sought to find a shorter trade route from Europe to China.

And if the Strait of Hormuz were to be blocked by Iran or any other country or entity, oil prices would skyrocket.

“Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it,” or so says Matthew 7.

If a conflict with Iran escalated beyond airstrikes to a naval struggle in the Strait of Hormuz, more resources would be diverted.

The children of thy barrenness shall still say in thy ears: The place is too strait for me, make me room to dwell in.

Departure on the fourth voyage, accompanied by a merchant-ship bound through Torres Strait.

Directions for the passage within the reefs through Torres Strait.

And the brave explorer sailed safely through the dangerous strait now named for him.

On the south-side of Clarence Strait the land is low, like the coast to the eastward.