Nicholas Channel

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Nicholas Channel (also Saint Nicholas Channel; Spanish: Canal de Nicolas or Canal de San Nicolas) is a strait off the northwestern coast of Cuba. It lies 90 miles (145 km) east of Havana.

Part of the Atlantic Ocean, it is bordered to the west and north by the Straits of Florida, to the south by the Sabana-Camaguey Archipelago off Cuba's north shore and to the east by the Old Bahamas Channel.

[edit] External links

• The Columbia Gazetteer of North America (2000). Nicholas Channel

Coordinates: 23°21′N 80°17′W / 23.35, -80.283 (Nicholas Channel)

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