Hainan Street

Hainan Road ; Qiongzhou Haixia ; 琼州海峡
	Hainan Strait between the peninsula and Hainan Island
Connects waters	Gulf of Tonking
with water	South China Sea
Separates land mass	Hainan
of land mass	Mainland China
	Data
Geographical location	20 ° 9 ′ N , 110 ° 16 ′ E Coordinates: 20 ° 9 ′ N , 110 ° 16 ′ E
length	65 km
Smallest width	15 km
Greatest depth	Average of 44 meters
Coastal towns	Haikou

The Hainan Strait , also called Qiongzhou Strait ( Chinese 瓊州海峽 / 琼州海峡 , Pinyin Qióngzhōu Hǎixiá , English Qiongzhou Strait ) is a strait between the Leizhou Peninsula in Guangdong and the island province of Hainan in southern China . It connects the Gulf of Tonking in the west with the South China Sea in the east.

General

The width of the Hainan Road is about 15 to 30 kilometers, the average depth is 44 meters, the maximum depth is about 120 meters.

It has recently also been crossed by the railway ferries of the Yue Hai Railway - Guangdong-Hainan Railway from Zhanjiang to Sanya .

Project

Bridge over the Hainan Street

In 2008 plans were announced to build a 140 billion RMB (about $ 21 billion ) bridge across the strait. It should have levels for both trains and cars, and be 16 miles long. Construction was scheduled to start in 2012, but the bridge was not completed until 2018. As an alternative, a tunnel is being considered. Current ferry traffic across the strait is prone to closure in fog and heavy typhoon activity.

Web links

Commons : Hainanstrasse - Collection of Images

Qiongzhou Street - The relief and the natural spaces from the University of Freiburg - Geology , PDF file; 3.69 MB
10-year-old girl swam through Qiongzhou Street from CRI on October 31, 2005

Individual evidence

↑ Shi, Maochong: The Role of Qiongzhou Strait in the Seasonal Variation of the South China Sea Circulation - January 2002 ( Memento of July 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). PDF file, 2.14 MB,. In: fvcom.smast.umassd.edu, accessed January 6, 2020. (English)
^ China - Provinces - Regional Studies - Sea ( Memento from August 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). In: www.china-guide.de, accessed January 6, 2020.
↑ 圆千征服琼州海峡梦 - 跨海工程投资逾 1400 亿元 - “The dream island of Hainan before the end of the 20th century. to Conquer - Estimated 140 billion yuan investment in Strait Crossing Project ”. In: Sohu .com. January 9, 2010, accessed January 6, 2020 (Chinese).
^ Yan ( editor ): GD, Hainan planning cross-Qiongzhou straits bridge - Szdaily - Web Edition. In: www.newsgd.com. December 25, 2008, accessed January 6, 2020 .
↑ Typhoon Chanthu lands on South China ( Memento of 23 July 2011 at the Internet Archive ). In: www.enbar.net, from July 22, 2010, accessed January 6, 2020. (English)
↑ Li Yi: Hainan travel chaos: Is it time to build the cross-strait subsea tunnel? China Plus for CRI , February 23, 2018, accessed January 6, 2020 .

[1] Shi, Maochong: The Role of Qiongzhou Strait in the Seasonal Variation of the South China Sea Circulation - January 2002 ( Memento of July 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). PDF file, 2.14 MB,. In: fvcom.smast.umassd.edu, accessed January 6, 2020. (English)

[2] China - Provinces - Regional Studies - Sea ( Memento from August 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). In: www.china-guide.de, accessed January 6, 2020.

[3] 圆千征服琼州海峡梦 - 跨海工程投资逾 1400 亿元 - “The dream island of Hainan before the end of the 20th century. to Conquer - Estimated 140 billion yuan investment in Strait Crossing Project ”. In: Sohu .com. January 9, 2010, accessed January 6, 2020 (Chinese).

[4] Yan ( editor ): GD, Hainan planning cross-Qiongzhou straits bridge - Szdaily - Web Edition. In: www.newsgd.com. December 25, 2008, accessed January 6, 2020 .

[5] Typhoon Chanthu lands on South China ( Memento of 23 July 2011 at the Internet Archive ). In: www.enbar.net, from July 22, 2010, accessed January 6, 2020. (English)

[6] Li Yi: Hainan travel chaos: Is it time to build the cross-strait subsea tunnel? China Plus for CRI , February 23, 2018, accessed January 6, 2020 .