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The Strait of Dover or Dover Strait, [a] historically known as the Dover Narrows, is the strait at the narrowest part of the English Channel, marking the boundary between the Channel and the North Sea, and separating Great Britain from continental Europe.
The English Channel, [a] [1] also known as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Southern England from northern France.It links to the southern part of the North Sea by the Strait of Dover at its northeastern end.
This is a list of notable successful swims across the English Channel, [1] a straight-line distance of at least 18.2 nautical miles (20.9 mi; 33.7 km). [2] Aerial view of the Strait of Dover Ted Heaton (in water) being fed by assistants during his 1910 swim Monument in Dover to Channel swimmers
The Channel Tunnel (French: Tunnel sous la Manche), sometimes referred to by the portmanteau Chunnel, [3] [4] is a 50.46 km (31.35-mile) undersea railway tunnel, opened in 1994, that connects Folkestone (Kent, England) with Coquelles (Pas-de-Calais, France) beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover.
[9] [10] [11] The geographical extent is eastwards from a line (00°14'E) extending south from Beachy Head England to Étretat France in the English Channel, through the Straits of Dover, then north through the southern North Sea to a line extending east from Berwick-upon-Tweed England (55°50’N) to Ringkobing Fjord Denmark.
With the topic of English Channel crossings high up the news agenda again after a flurry of arrivals, the PA news agency has looked at some of the key questions on the topic.
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The Dover Strait coastal guns were long-range coastal artillery batteries that were sited on both sides of the English Channel during the Second World War.The British built several gun positions along the coast of Kent, England while the Germans fortified the Pas-de-Calais in occupied France.