https://hormuz.net/tags/geography/ Recent content in Geography on Hormuz.net Hugo en-us Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://hormuz.net/twenty-one-miles-the-physical-geography-of-the-worlds-most-important-waterway/ Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://hormuz.net/twenty-one-miles-the-physical-geography-of-the-worlds-most-important-waterway/ <p>The Strait of Hormuz is 90 miles long and between 21 and 55 miles wide. The navigable channel — the portion deep enough for laden very large crude carriers and the other substantial vessels that transit it — is much narrower. Two traffic separation lanes, each approximately two miles wide, handle the inbound and outbound commercial traffic, separated by a two-mile buffer zone. The effective transit corridor for a laden supertanker is therefore something on the order of two miles across, within a strait that appears much wider on maps but that shallow water, islands, and navigational hazards reduce to a constrained passage at the critical point.</p>