Singapore Strait

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noun

a strait between Singapore Island and the Riau Archipelago at the S end of the Malay Peninsula: shipping channel between the South China Sea and the Malacca Strait. 65 miles (105 km) long and 10 miles (16 km) wide.

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The U.S. embassy in Singapore said on Wednesday the United States has allowed some transactions in efforts to free the supertanker, which ran aground last month in the Singapore Strait near a key gas line.

From Reuters • Nov. 10, 2022

The design of the new system was so confusing that the sailors using it accidentally guided the McCain into an oil tanker in the Singapore Strait on Aug. 21.

From Salon • Jan. 18, 2020

The Capella overlooks the Singapore Strait not far from where the United States Navy suffered one of its biggest disasters in recent years.

From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2018

Malaysia’s Maritime Enforcement Agency said the area is at the start of a designated sea lane for ships sailing into the busy Singapore Strait.

From Washington Times • Aug. 22, 2017

Gerini remarks that it is unmistakably the Old Singapore Strait, and that there is no channel so shallow throughout all those parts except among reefs.

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry

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