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Highest Commercially Navigable Lake

#00503 / Nature

World's Longest Strait

Evidence-backed
about1,600km

Mozambique Channel

Indian Ocean between Mozambique and Madagascar

The Mozambique Channel stretches roughly 1,600 km between mainland southeastern Africa and Madagascar in the western Indian Ocean. Some geographical sources call it the world's longest strait, although that depends on how broad channels and their limits are classified.

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First Crewed Descent to Challenger Deep

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