مضيق لوزون

Luzon Strait
Luzon Strait
الاحداثيات
بلدان الحوض	Taiwan, Luzon island of the Philippines
أقصى عرض	250 kilometres (160 mi)
أقصى عمق	ca. 4,000 meters (13,000 ft)

Old Japanese map of the Luzon Strait

مضيق لوزون (بالفلپينو: Kipot ng Luzon ؛ إنگليزية: Luzon Strait) هو مضيق بين تايوان وجزيرة لوزون في الفلپين. والخليج يربط بحر الفلپين بـبحر الصين الجنوبي في غرب المحيط الهادي.

This body of water is an important strait for shipping and communications. Many ships from the Americas use this route to go to important East Asian ports. Many submarine communications cables pass through the Luzon Strait. These cables provide important data and telephony services to China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea.

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 الوصف

The Luzon Strait is approximately 250 kilometres (160 mi) wide containing a number of islands belonging to the Philippines that are grouped into two: the islands comprising the province of Batanes and the Babuyan Islands, which are part of the province of Cagayan. The strait is divided into a number of smaller channels. The Babuyan Channel separates Luzon from the Babuyan Islands, which is separated from Batanes by the Balintang Channel. Batanes is separated from Taiwan by the Bashi Channel.

Some of the largest ocean waves in the world are found in the north of the strait, at times over 170 metres, stemming from tides and ocean currents. These waves or currents are underwater and rarely break the surface, thus posing no danger to shipping but are sometimes visible to satellites. The oscillation is largely prompted by a long north-south ridge which covers almost all of the strait, then amplified in the northern section by a second parallel ridge. The depth of the strait reaches the 3,500 m and 4,000 contours in north-south trenches in the middle and south-western edge.

 التاريخ

انظر أيضاً: Japanese occupation of the Philippines

مضيق لوزون كان جزءاً من طريق الغزو الياباني أثناء الحرب العالمية الثانية. وفي 8 ديسمبر 1941 (the same day as the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, due to the International Date Line), forces of the امبراطورية اليابان landed on Batanes. By 10 December, they had occupied Camiguin de Babuyanes in the Babuyan Islands (not to be confused with the island-province of Camiguin off northern مندناو) in a soon-abandoned attempt to establish a seaplane base, and on the same day landed at Aparri, Cagayan on Luzon.

Subsequently, during the Second World War, many US submarines hunted Japanese convoys passing through the strait on their way from the East Indies to Japan.