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- The Palk Strait is a strait between the Tamil Nadu state of India and the Jaffna District of the Northern Province of Sri Lanka.
- Palk Strait connects the Bay of Bengal in the northeast with the Palk Bay and connects the Palk Bay to the Gulf of Mannar in the southwest.
- The strait is named after Robert Palk, who was a Governor of Madras (1755–1763) during the Company Raj period.
- The Gulf of Mannar is home to thousands of species of flora and fauna and is known as one of the richest coastal regions in India.
- The corals, sharks, dugongs, dolphins, and sea cucumber.
- It is 53-80 kilometres wide, studded with a chain of low islands and reef shoals that are collectively called Adam’s Bridge.
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