Kara Strait
The Kara Strait or Kara Gates is a 56 km wide channel of water between the southern end of Novaya Zemlya and the northern tip of Vaygach Island. This strait connects the Kara Sea and the Barents Sea in northern Russia.Photo: NASA, Public domain.
- Type: Strait
- Description: strait in Novaya Zemlya, Russia
- Also known as: “Karskiya Vorota”, “Nassau Strait”, “Nassow Strait”, “Str. of Nassow”, “Strait of Nassau”, and “Strait of Nassow”
Kara Strait
- Category: body of water
- Location: Nenetsia, Northwestern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Kara Strait” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مضيق كارا”
- Armenian: “Կարայի դարպասներ”
- Asturian: “Estrechu de Kara”
- Azerbaijani: “Kara darvazası”
- Basque: “Karako itsasartea”
- Belarusian: “Карскія Вароты”
- Belarusian: “Праліў Карскія Вароты”
- Bosnian: “Karski prolaz”
- Bulgarian: “Карски Врата”
- Catalan: “estret de Kara”
- Catalan: “Estret de Kara”
- Cebuano: “Proliv Karskiye Vorota”
- Chinese: “Kara Hái-kiap”
- Chinese: “卡拉海峽”
- Chinese: “喀拉海峡”
- Croatian: “Karska vrata”
- Czech: “Karská vrata”
- Danish: “Karastrædet”
- Dutch: “Karische Poort”
- Esperanto: “Kara markolo”
- Estonian: “Kara Värav”
- Finnish: “Karanportti”
- Finnish: “Karansalmi”
- French: “détroit de Kara”
- French: “Détroit de Kara”
- French: “Karskie Vorota”
- French: “Карские Ворота”
- German: “Karastrasse”
- German: “Karastraße”
- Hebrew: “מצר קארה”
- Hindi: “कारा जलडमरूमध्य”
- Icelandic: “Karasund”
- Indonesian: “Selat Kara”
- Italian: “stretto di Kara”
- Italian: “Stretto di Kara”
- Japanese: “カラ海峡”
- Japanese: “カルスキエ・ヴォロタ海峡”
- Japanese: “カルスキエボロタ海峡”
- Korean: “카라 해협”
- Korean: “카르스키예 해협”
- Latin: “Pylae Karicae”
- Latvian: “Karas Vārti”
- Lithuanian: “Karos Vartai”
- Macedonian: “Карска Врата”
- Macedonian: “Карски Проток”
- Marathi: “कारा सामुद्रधुनी”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kara Hái-kiap”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karaporten”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karastredet”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karasundet”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Proliv Karskije Vorota”
- Norwegian: “Karastredet”
- Ossetian: “Карæйы Кулдуар”
- Ossetian: “Карскы Кулдуар”
- Panjabi: “ਕਾਰਾ ਪਣਜੋੜ”
- Persian: “تنگه کارا”
- Persian: “خلیج عقبه”
- Polish: “Karskie Wrota”
- Portuguese: “Estreito de Cara”
- Portuguese: “Estreito de Kara”
- Portuguese: “Karskiye Vorota”
- Russian: “Бе́рингов Карские Ворота”
- Russian: “Карские Ворота”
- Russian: “Пролив Карские Ворота”
- Scots: “Kara Strait”
- Serbian: “Karska vrata”
- Serbian: “Карска врата”
- Serbian: “Карские Ворота”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Karska vrata”
- Slovak: “Karské vráta”
- Spanish: “Estrecho de Kara”
- Swedish: “Kara Strait”
- Swedish: “Karasundet”
- Swedish: “Proliv Karskiye Vorota”
- Turkish: “Kara Boğazı”
- Ukrainian: “Карські Ворота”
- Urdu: “آبنائے کارا”
- Vietnamese: “Eo biển Kara”
- Waray (Philippines): “Estrecho han Kara”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kara Strait”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sulang han Kara”
- Western Frisian: “Karyske Poarte”
- Western Panjabi: “آبنائے کارا”
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