STRAIT OF GIBRALTER, Connection Point of Europe and Africa

STRAIT OF GIBRALTER This is lecture series about strategically important Straits in the World. Lecture can be helpful for study of A & O levels, Undergraduate, Graduate, Bachelors, BS, Masters in World Universities, and Competitive examinations of world like Banking, Chinese, US & EUROPEAN CIVIL SERVICES, Gaokao, Mensa, UPSC, SSC, RRB, IAS, CSS, PCS, UPSC, PPSC, IELTS, TOFEL, GMAT, DTE, CELPIP, CELTA, TEFL, TESOL, ACT, LAST, UPSEE, PRELIMS, SAT, AND INSP. Please subscribes and share with students. Thanks. Definition of Strait. A strait is a narrow navigable waterway that connects two seas or separates two land mass in Sea. It lies between two land masses. Strait is used for transporting ships of goods to various parts of the world. Straits connect the different cultures, peoples and parts of world. It is a sort of reducing the distance. Strait of Gibraltar. The Strait of Gibraltar is strategically important strait of world. It separates Africa from Europe. GS connects Mediterranean Sea with Atlantic Ocean. The Strait of Gibraltar is also known in Arabic: مضيق جبل طارق, the Gut of Gibraltar, Bāb al-maghrib, meaning "Gate of the West" or "Gate of the sunset", and "Gate of the Maghreb" or "Gate of Morocco". In Spanish Estrecho de Gibraltar. Its archaic name is Pillars of Hercules. It is a narrow strait that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates the Iberian Peninsula in Europe from Morocco in Africa. The two continents are separated by 13 kilometers, 7 nautical miles of ocean at the Strait's narrowest point between Point Marroquí in Spain and Point Cires in Morocco. The strait lies in the territorial waters of Morocco, Spain, and the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. Under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, foreign vessels have the freedom of navigation to cross the strait of Gibraltar. The Strait is an important shipping route from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic. The straits of Gibraltar are famed for being the closest maritime link between the African and European continents. It is possible to see the other end of the strait on a clear day. It is the most important maritime chokepoint in the world. It is also one of the most geopolitically contentious. Spain to the north and Morocco to the south effectively control the strait itself. Spain insisted that the Gibraltar dispute is a bilateral matter purely between the United Kingdom and Spain. This principle appears to have been reflected in the United Nations resolutions on the decolonization of Gibraltar declared it of the Gibraltarians.

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