Kii canal
| Kii canal | ||
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| Connects waters | Bay of Osaka and Harima-nada | |
| with water | Philippine Sea | |
| Separates land mass | Kii peninsula | |
| of land mass | Shikoku | |
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| Geographical location | 34 ° 0 ′ N , 134 ° 55 ′ E | |
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| length | 45 km | |
| Smallest width | 29 km | |
The Kii Channel ( Japanese 紀 伊 水道 , Kii-suidō ) is a 45 km long and between 29 and 55 km wide strait of the Pacific Ocean and a marine region of the Seto Inland Sea in Japan.
It lies between the Kii Peninsula of the main island of Honshū in the east and the island of Shikoku in the west, both of which are characterized by a Ria coastline with deeply cut bays such as Yuasa Bay ( 湯 浅 湾 , Yuasa-wan ; 34 ° 2 ′ N , 135 ° 8 ′ E ) of the Kii Peninsula or Tachibana Bay ( 橘 湾 , Tachibana-wan ; 33 ° 52 ′ N , 134 ° 41 ′ E ) of Shikoku.
The southern limit is its narrowest point between the capes Kii-Hi-no-misaki of the Kii peninsula and Kamoda-misaki of Shikoku. The northern boundary is formed by the island of Awaji , where the canal connects the Bay of Osaka in the northeast via the Kitan Strait or the Tomogashima Canal and in the northwest via the Naruto Strait the marine region of Harima-nada with the Pacific in the south. It thus represents a very important waterway through which, on the one hand, all shipping routes between the Kansai and the Pacific and, on the other hand, a large part of the routes from the inland sea into the Pacific.
Five kilometers east of Kamoda-misaki are the islands of Ishima , Maejima and Tanago-jima.
The canal is named after the former province of Kii , after which the peninsula and thus the canal are named.
literature
- Teikoku's Complete Atlas of Japan , ISBN 4-8071-0004-1
