Question

Name the strait located near the Gulf of Mannar.

Answer 1

Hint:
 Lies between the southeastern tip of India and the west coast of Sri Lanka. The mouth of the Amirabari River in South India and the Aruvi Aru River in Sri Lanka flow into the Persian Gulf.

Complete step by step solution:
Palk strait, entrance to the Bay of Bengal between southeastern India and northern Sri Lanka. It is bounded on the South by Pambar Island (India), Adam’s (Rama’s) bridge ( a chain of shoals), the Gulf of Mannar, and Mannar island ( Sri Lanka). The strait is 40 to 85 miles wide, 85 miles long and less than 330 feet deep. It receives several rivers of which the Vaigai river in Tamilnadu is prominent.

About Gulf of Manner
The Gulf of Mannar was declared as Marine National park. It is a protected areas of India consisting of 21 small Islands and adjacent canal reefs in the Gulf of Mannar in the Indian Ocean. It lies 1 to 10 km away from the east coast of Tamilnadu, India.
1986 – Designated Marine National Park in Mannar Bay.
1989- The park and it’s 10 km buffer zone were declared a Biosphere Reserve.
First marine Biosphere Reserve in South East Asia, a chain of 21 islands.
Home to 3,600 rare species of flora and fauna like fishes, coral reefs, sea horse, algae, marine plants.
Gulf of Manner reefs
It is located on the 140 km route between Tuticorin and Rameshwaram.
Latitude 8 ° 47’N. And 9 ° 15’N.
Longitude 78 ° 12 ‘East and 79 ° 14’ East.
The Islets and coastal buffer zone includes
Beaches
Estuaries
Tropical dry broadleaf forests
The marine Environment include
Seaweed communities
Seagrass communities
Coral reefs
Salt marshes
Mangrove forests
Adverse effect on Sri Lanka
Extinction of more than 700 fish varieties.
India’s secret military and nuclear agenda.
More suscep to future cyclones and tsunamis.
EIA Report prepared without any consultation.

Note:
 From ancient times, the Gulf of Mannar, Palk Bay have been treated as Historic waters. The Gulf is a portion of the sea that penetrates the land, and strait is a narrow passage of water that connects two large bodies of water.