Singapore Strait

American  

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

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

Two months later, the USS John S. McCain, another Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, turned into the path of the tanker ship Alnic MC while both vessels were passing through the congested Singapore Strait.

From Washington Times • Jul. 29, 2021

The Singapore Strait, one of the world's busiest commercial shipping routes, has seen 16 incidents since between January and June.

From BBC • Jul. 17, 2020

The McCain was hit by the Alnic MC, a 30,000-ton oil tanker, while traveling in the Singapore Strait.

From Salon • Apr. 14, 2019

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