Alas Strait

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| name = Alas Strait

| native_name ={{native name|id|Selat Alas}}

| image = Gunung Rinjani yang Terlihat dari Selat Alas.jpg

| caption = The Alas Strait with Mount Rinjani on Lombok in the background.

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| pushpin_map = Indonesia Sumbawa

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| pushpin_map_caption = Sumbawa island and Alas Strait

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| reference = [https://www.geographic.org/geographic_names/name.php?uni=-3687030&fid=2615&c=Indonesia Selat Alas: Indonesia] National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, MD, USA

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The Alas Strait is a strait that separates Lombok and Sumbawa, two islands of Indonesia in West Nusa Tenggara province.

The strait was bridged by land until about 14,000 years before present when sea level rose to about 75 meters below present sea level,

{{cite web|url=http://www.fieldmuseum.org/explore/pleistocene-sea-level-maps|title=Pleistocene Sea Level Maps|work=The Field Museum}}

unlike Lombok Strait and Alor Strait which continued to be water gaps even during the Last Glacial Maximum, at each end of a 400-mile-long island including present-day Lombok, Sumbawa, Komodo, Flores, Solor, Adonara, and Lembata.

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