# Kitan Strait

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{{Short description|Strait between Awaji and Honshu islands, Japan}}
[[File:Kitan-Strait 1.png|thumb|right|300px|The Kitan Strait, separating [Awaji Island](/source/Awaji_Island) from [Honshū](/source/Honsh%C5%AB)]]

The {{nihongo|'''Kitan Strait'''|紀淡海峡|Kitan kaikyō}} or {{Nihongo|'''Tomogashima Channel'''|友ヶ島水道|Tomogashima suidō}} separates [Awaji Island](/source/Awaji_Island) from [Wakayama](/source/Wakayama%2C_Wakayama), [Wakayama Prefecture](/source/Wakayama_Prefecture), [Japan](/source/Japan) and connects the [Osaka Bay](/source/Osaka_Bay) in the north to the [Kii Channel](/source/Kii_Channel) in the south. The total width is 11&nbsp;km, but the islands of [Tomogashima](/source/Tomogashima) reduce the distance to be spanned by a proposed bridge.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3tGWLabecNwC&dq=kitan+strait&pg=PA66 |title=Bridge Aeroelasticity: Sensitivity Analysis and Optimum Design |author=Jurado, J.|publisher=[WIT Press](/source/WIT_Press) |year=2011 |page=66|isbn=9781845640569 |display-authors=etal}}</ref><!--Interesting claim re Awaji - how reliable is this source?--><ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.crcnetbase.com/doi/abs/10.1201/NOE9058096043.ch173 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121202233640/http://www.crcnetbase.com/doi/abs/10.1201/NOE9058096043.ch173 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-12-02 |title=Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials |chapter=Chapter 173: Compression characteristics of stiff clay to support a bridge foundation evaluated by field and laboratory tests |pages=1363ff |editor=Di Benedetto, Hervé |publisher=[Taylor & Francis](/source/Taylor_%26_Francis) |year=2003 |doi=10.1201/NOE9058096043 |isbn=978-90-5809-604-3 }}</ref>
The [strait](/source/strait) forms part of the [Setonaikai National Park](/source/Setonaikai_National_Park).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.env.go.jp/park/setonaikai/intro/files/area_1.pdf |title=Setonaikai National Park - Map 1 |publisher=[Ministry of the Environment](/source/Ministry_of_the_Environment_(Japan)) |accessdate=1 February 2012}}</ref>

==See also==
* [Akashi Strait](/source/Akashi_Kaiky%C5%8D_Bridge)

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{{Coord|34.2756|N|135.01047|E|type:waterbody_scale:1000000_source:frwiki|display=title}}

Category:Straits of Japan
Category:Landforms of Wakayama Prefecture

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