Matochkin Strait
Matochkin Strait or Matochkin Shar is a narrow waterway separating Severny and Yuzhny Island on Russia's Novaya Zemlya archipelago. It links the Barents Sea on the west to the Kara Sea on the east in the Arctic Circle.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Strait
- Description: strait connecting Barents and Kara Seas
- Also known as: “Matochkin Shar”
Matochkin Strait
- Category: body of water
- Location: Arkhangelsk Oblast, Northwestern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Upper Sorbian—“Matochkin Strait” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مضيق ماتوتشكين”
- Armenian: “Մատոչկին շար”
- Armenian: “Մատոչկին Շար”
- Asturian: “Estrechu de Mátochkin”
- Azerbaijani: “Matoçkin Şar boğazı”
- Belarusian: “Матачкін Шар”
- Belarusian: “Праліў Матачкін Шар”
- Bulgarian: “Маточкин Шар”
- Catalan: “estret de Màtotxkin”
- Catalan: “Estret de Màtotxkin”
- Cebuano: “Proliv Matochkin Shar”
- Chinese: “馬托奇金海峽”
- Chinese: “马托奇金海峡”
- Croatian: “Matočkin tjesnac”
- Czech: “Matočkin Šar”
- Czech: “Matočkin”
- Dutch: “Matotsjkin Sjar”
- Estonian: “Matotškin Šar”
- Finnish: “Matoshkin Shar”
- Finnish: “Matoškin Šar”
- Finnish: “Matotshkin Shar”
- Finnish: “Matotškin Šar”
- French: “Detroit de Matotchkine”
- French: “détroit de Matotchkine”
- French: “Détroit de Matotchkine”
- German: “Matotschkin Schar”
- German: “Matotschkin-Straße”
- German: “Matotschkinstraße”
- Hebrew: “מצר מטוצ’קין”
- Hindi: “मटोच्किन जलडमरूमध्य”
- Italian: “Stretto di Matočkin”
- Japanese: “マトチキン海峡”
- Kazakh: “Маточкин шар”
- Kazakh: “Маточкин Шар”
- Kirghiz: “Маточкин Шар”
- Korean: “마토치킨 해협”
- Latvian: “Matočkinšars”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Matotsjkinsundet”
- Norwegian: “Matotsjkinsundet”
- Persian: “تنگه ماتوچکین”
- Polish: “Cieśnina Matoczkin Szar”
- Polish: “Matoczkin Szar”
- Portuguese: “Estreito de Matochkin”
- Portuguese: “Estreito de Matotchkin”
- Russian: “Маточкин Шар”
- Russian: “Ма́точкин Шар”
- Russian: “Пролив Маточкин Шар”
- Slovak: “Matočkin Šar”
- Spanish: “Estrecho de Matochkin”
- Spanish: “Estrecho de Mátochkin”
- Turkish: “Matoçingşer”
- Turkish: “Matoçkin Boğazı”
- Ukrainian: “Маточкин Шар”
- Ukrainian: “Маточкін Шар”
- Upper Sorbian: “Matočkin Šar”
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