Timeline for Behavior of narrow straits between oceans
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| Aug 21, 2023 at 20:49 | comment | added | ccprog | What makes straits hard to navigate is often not the weather, but the currents - Gibraltar is a good example for that. There can be a lot of reasons for currents: surface winds, differences in salinity, different sea levels, different resonance conditions for lunar tides. Take a long and winding strait like the Bosporus, and you need a local pilot even nowadays. | |
| Aug 21, 2023 at 19:22 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Aug 21, 2023 at 19:05 | history | edited | jdunlop | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 21, 2023 at 13:24 | answer | added | L.Dutch♦ | timeline score: 8 | |
| Aug 21, 2023 at 12:47 | comment | added | AlexP | Drake's passage is not particularly close to the south pole. Cape Horn is at about the same southern latitude as Edinburgh, Copenhagen or Moscow are at northern latitude, and I believe that nobody would say that Edinburgh, Copenhagen or Moscow are close to the north pole. Drake's passage is stormy because it is the only narrowing of the vast expanse of open water occupying the southern part of the southern hemisphere, and therefore it is where the neverending ring of westerly winds is constricted. | |
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| S Aug 21, 2023 at 11:20 | history | asked | Maksim Ubaydulaev | CC BY-SA 4.0 |