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Geography Vocabulary

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man-made straits that connect two larger bodies of water
canals provide important water passage to connect water bodies that would otherwise require long-distance water travel around land bodies or continents

Bahr Yussef
- connects the Nile to the Faiyum Oasis and Lake Moeris, built 2300 BC
Canal of the Pharaohs
- connected the Nile to the Red Sea
- built by Necho II, Assyrian ruler of Egypt in 7th century BC
- Persian king Darius I bragged of building a canal linking the Nile to the Red Sea (6th century BC)
Corinth Canal
Grand Canal
- connected the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers, built under the Sui dynasty (6th century AD)
Suez Canal
Panama Canal

a narrow body of water that connects larger bodies of water, or, a narrow channel that separates land masses

important straits and channels
Bosporus Strait:
- connects Black Sea to Aegean/Mediterranean Seas
Strait of Gibraltar
- connects Mediterranean Sea to Atlantic Ocean
- ancient Greeks called it the "Pillars of Hercules"
Strait of Magellan
- connects Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
- the passageway near the southern tip of South America that was navigated by the explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who led the first expedition to circumnavigated the globe
Beagle Channel
- a second, less navigable passageway near the southern tip of South America that was navigated by Charles Darwin on the HMS Beagle
- NOTE: the open-ocean passageway, around the very tip of South America is called "Drake's Passage", named for English explorer Francis Drake who circumnavigated the globe
Strait of Hormuz
Bering Strait
Strait of Messina
Bab-el Mendeb Strait
Strait of Malacca
- See:
  - [Strait (wiki)]
  - [Top 10 Straits and Channels (morethanshipping.com)]

a "headland", "promontory" or large body of land that extends into a larger water body, usually an ocean or a sea
- "headland" is a "coastal landform," usually with a high point and cliffs
- "promontory" is a raised land body that extends into lower land or water
  - promontories are often used a defensive positions for forts and castles
  - a promontory in water is a peninsula

Cape Horn
- southernmost headland, or tip of land, on Hornos Island, one of the Hermite Islands, the southernmost of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago at the southern tip of South America

Click EXPAND for a list of important capes

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