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Strategic World Water Bodies

Strategic World Water Bodies. Developed by Joe Naumann UMSL. Eastern Hemisphere. European . Strait of Gibraltar Strait of Dover Storebaelt Sicilian Channel Dardanelles Bosporus. Strait of Gibraltar. Strait of Gibraltar.

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Strategic World Water Bodies

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  1. StrategicWorldWaterBodies Developed by Joe Naumann UMSL

  2. Eastern Hemisphere The Basic Outline

  3. European • Strait of Gibraltar • Strait of Dover • Storebaelt • Sicilian Channel • Dardanelles • Bosporus The Basic Outline

  4. Strait of Gibraltar The Basic Outline

  5. Strait of Gibraltar • On the northern side of the Strait is Spain and Gibraltar, while on the southern side is Morocco and Ceuta, a Spanish exclave in North Africa. Its boundaries were known in antiquity as the Pillars of Hercules. There are several small islands, such as the disputed Isla Perejil, that are claimed by both Spain and Morocco. The Basic Outline

  6. Strait of gibraltar The Basic Outline

  7. View with perspective SPAIN MOROCCO The Basic Outline

  8. View from the Rock of Gibraltar The Basic Outline

  9. Strait of dover The Basic Outline

  10. Strait of Dover • The Strait of Dover or Dover Strait is the strait at the narrowest part of the English Channel. Most maritime traffic between the Atlantic Ocean and the North and Baltic Seas passes through the Strait of Dover, rather than take the longer and more dangerous route around the north of Scotland. The Strait is one of the busiest international seaways in the world, regularly used by over 400 commercial vessels daily. The Basic Outline

  11. Strait of Dover The Basic Outline

  12. Looking Over the strait of dover The Basic Outline

  13. Storebaelt The Basic Outline

  14. Storebaelt • The Great Belt (Storebaelt) is part of the 3 Danish straits (the Great Belt, the Little Belt and the Sound) connecting the brackish Baltic Sea with the saline North Sea. The Basic Outline

  15. Storebaelt The Basic Outline

  16. Storebaelt Bridge The Basic Outline

  17. Sicilian Channel The Basic Outline

  18. Sicilian Channel • The Strait of Sicily (Sicilian Channel) is the strait between Sicily and Tunisia. It is about 100 miles (160 km) wide and divides the Tyrrhenian Sea and the western Mediterranean Sea from the eastern Mediterranean. Deep currents in the strait flow from east to west, and the current nearer the surface travels in the opposite direction. The unusual water flow is of interest to oceanographers. The Basic Outline

  19. Sicilian Channel Sicilian Channel The Basic Outline

  20. The Basic Outline

  21. Dardanelles & bosporus The Basic Outline

  22. Dardanelles & Bosporus • The Dardanelles is a narrow strait in northwestern Turkey connecting the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara. Like the Bosporus, it separates Europe (in this case the Gallipoli peninsula) and the mainland of Asia. The strait is an International waterway, and together with the Bosporus, Dardanelles connects the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea. The Basic Outline

  23. Dardanelles The Basic Outline

  24. Bosporus Dardanelles The Basic Outline

  25. Bosporus The Basic Outline

  26. Bosporus bridge The Basic Outline

  27. Middle Eastern • Suez Canal • Gulf of Aqaba • Strait of Hormuz • Bab el Mandeb The Basic Outline

  28. Suez canal & Gulf of Aqaba& The Basic Outline

  29. Suez Canal • The Suez Canal is a large artificial maritime canal in Egypt west of the Sinai Peninsula. It is 163 km (101 miles) long and 300 m (984 ft) wide at its narrowest point, and runs between Port Said on the Mediterranean Sea, and Suez on the Red Sea. The canal allows two-way north-to-south water transportation, most importantly between Europe and Asia without circumnavigation of Africa. The Basic Outline

  30. Suez Canal importance • The Suez Canal was the focus of British foreign policy in the Middle East for many years and they were determined to protect their investment. Israel and Egypt fought over it in 1956, 1967, and 1973. The Basic Outline

  31. Suez Canal & Gulf of Aqaba Gulf of Aqaba Suez Canal The Basic Outline

  32. The Basic Outline

  33. Suez Canal from space The Basic Outline

  34. Ships in the Suez Canal The Basic Outline

  35. Gulf of Aqaba • The Gulf of Aqaba is one of two gulfs created by the Sinai Peninsula's bifurcation of the northern Red Sea. The Gulf of Aqaba lies to its east. The Gulf of Aqaba measures 24 km at its widest point and stretches some 160 km north from the Straits of Tiran to a point where the border of Israel meets the borders of Egypt and Jordan. At this northern end of the Gulf are three important cities: Taba in Egypt, Eilat in Israel, and Aqaba in Jordan. All three cities serve both as strategically important commercial ports The Basic Outline

  36. The Basic Outline

  37. Elat, Israel across the gulf The Basic Outline

  38. Strait of Hormuz The Basic Outline

  39. Strait of Hormuz • The Strait of Hormuz is a narrow, strategically important stretch of ocean between the Gulf of Oman in the southeast and the Persian Gulf in the southwest. On the north coast is Iran and on the south coast is the United Arab Emirates and Musandam, an exclave of Oman. It is the only sea passage to the open ocean for petroleum exporting Persian Gulf States. Some 20 percent of the world's oil supply passes through the strait, making it an important strategic military location in the Middle East. The Basic Outline

  40. Strait of Hormuz The Basic Outline

  41. Satellite View The Basic Outline

  42. Iranian navy in hormuz The Basic Outline

  43. Bab el Mandeb The Basic Outline

  44. Bab elmandeb • The Bab el-Mandeb strait (12° 40” North, 43° 20” East) separates Africa (Djibouti and Eritrea), and Asia (Yemen), and connects the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean via the Gulf of Aden. The strait is strategically important because it is considered one of the world’s oil transit chokepoints. Bab el-Mandeb was the site for of a naval blockade of Israel by Egypt in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. The Basic Outline

  45. Bab el mandeb The Basic Outline

  46. Sailing the Bab el mandeb The Basic Outline

  47. Asian • Strait of Malacca • Taiwan Strait • Korean Strait • Bering Strait The Basic Outline

  48. Strait of Malacca The Basic Outline

  49. The Strait of Malacca is a narrow, 805 km (500 mile) stretch of water between Peninsular Malaysia and the Indonesian island of Sumatra. From an economic and strategic perspective the Strait of Malacca is one of the most important shipping lanes in the world, an equivalent of the Suez Canal, or the Panama Canal. The Basic Outline

  50. Strait of malacca The Basic Outline

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