Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The map is possibly the first recorded use of the term English Channel and the description suggests the name had recently been adopted. [ 9 ] In the sixteenth century, Dutch maps referred to the sea as the Engelse Kanaal (English Channel) and by the 1590s, William Shakespeare used the word Channel in his history plays of Henry VI , suggesting ...
Hurd Deep running from bottom left to top right of an extract from a 1955 Admiralty Chart 1955 Admiralty Chart No 2649 showing Hurd Deep in the context of the English Channel. Hurd's Deep (or Hurd Deep) is an underwater valley in the English Channel, northwest of the Channel Islands. Its maximum depth is about 180 m (590 ft; 98 fathoms), making ...
November 2021 English Channel disaster; Operation Biting; Operation Jericho; Sark; White House, Herm; User talk:Keith-264/sandbox4; Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history/Archive 155; Template:Bailiwick of Guernsey location map; Template:Bailiwick of Guernsey location map/doc; Module:Location map/data/English Channel; Module:Location map ...
[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.
The Lobourg strait, the deepest part the strait, runs its 6 km (4 mi)wide slash on a NNE–SSW axis. Nearer to the French coast than to the English, it borders the Varne sandbank (shoals) where it plunges to 68 m (223 ft) and further south, the Ridge bank (shoals) (French name "Colbart" [10]) with a maximum depth of 62 m (203 ft). [11]
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "English Channel" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 ...
Hand Deeps is an area of the English Channel located 8 nautical miles (15 km; 9.2 mi) south-west of Rame Head, Cornwall and 3.5 nautical miles (6.5 km; 4.0 mi) north-west of the Eddystone. The name comes from the five pinnacles there which rise from the surrounding sea bed depth of 55 metres to depth between 7 and 19 metres from the surface.
Relief Map of English Channel.png Module:Location map/data/English Channel is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of English Channel . The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.