Kra Isthmus

Coordinates: 10°11′00″N 98°53′00″E / 10.18333°N 98.88333°E / 10.18333; 98.88333
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Kra Isthmus
Chumphon, Thailand

The Kra Isthmus (

Chumphon Province, both in Southern Thailand. The isthmus is bordered to the west by the Andaman Sea and to the east by the Gulf of Thailand.[citation needed
]

The Kra Isthmus marks the boundary between two sections of the mountain chain which runs from Tibet through the Malay peninsula. The southern part is the Phuket Range, which is a continuation of the Tenasserim Hills, extending further northwards for over 400 km (250 mi) beyond the Three Pagodas Pass.[2]

The Kra Isthmus is in the

Dipterocarps are the dominant trees in the ecoregion.[3]

Pacific War

On 8 December 1941 local time, the

capture of Singapore.[4]

Kra Canal

The Thai Canal is a long-standing proposal to join the Gulf of Thailand with the Andaman Sea.[5] Various routes were proposed[6] to shortcut voyages from India to China, avoiding the Straits of Malacca. The northernmost route was championed by Edward O'Riley (1821-1856), a government official in Burma, and Henry Wise, in England, when it was the subject of a report to the British Parliament in 1859 by Consul Robert Schomburk from Bangkok.[7] A later crossing is related by Loftus[8]

References

  1. ^ "Kra, Isthmus of". Oxford Dictionaries. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
  2. ^ Gupta, A. The Physical Geography of Southeast Asia
  3. ^ Wikramanayake, Eric; Eric Dinerstein; Colby J. Loucks; et al. (2002). Terrestrial Ecoregions of the Indo-Pacific: a Conservation Assessment. Washington, DC: Island Press.
  4. ^ Parfitt, Allen. "Bicycle Blitzkreig [sic] The Japanese Conquest of Malaya and Singapore 1941-1942". MilitaryHistoryOnline.com. Archived from the original on 28 October 2015. Retrieved 9 Aug 2012.
  5. ^ Griffith University (23 March 2010). "Thai Canal Project: Over 300 years of conceptualising and still counting". Asian Correspondent. Hybrid News. Archived from the original on 26 May 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
  6. ISBN 978-0-19-046950-4
  7. ^ 1859 Session 2 [2572] Despatch relative to the projected ship-canal across the Isthmus of Kraa (sic.)
  8. ^ Loftus, Alfred John (1883). Notes of a journey across the Isthmus of Krà.
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