The Kerch Strait is a strait in Eastern Europe. It connects the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, separating the Kerch Peninsula of Crimea in the west from the Taman Peninsula of Russia's Krasnodar Krai
Views of the Cimmerian Bosporus, or Straits of Taman, as drawn by Edward Daniel Clarke c. 1801
View from the Crimean coast in 2003
View northwest from Tuzla Island towards Port Krym in 2014. The strait is about 5 km wide at this point.
The Black Sea is a marginal sea located between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bordered by Bulgaria, Georgia
Kerch Strait
…The Kerch Strait is a strait in Eastern Europe. It connects the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, separating the Kerch Peninsula of Crimea in the west from the Taman Peninsula of Russia's Krasnodar Krai in the east. The strait…
The location of the Black Sea, with East Mediterranean to the south
The estuary of the Veleka in the Black Sea. Longshore drift has deposited sediment along the shoreline which has led to the formation of a spit (Sinemorets, Bulgaria).
Black Sea coast of western Georgia, with the skyline of Batumi on the horizon