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  2. English Channel - Wikipedia

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    By the eighteenth century, the name English Channel was in common usage in England. Following the Acts of Union 1707, this was replaced in official maps and documents with British Channel or British Sea for much of the next century. However, the term English Channel remained popular and was finally in official usage by the nineteenth century. [11]

  3. General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans - Wikipedia

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    GEBCO is the only intergovernmental body with a mandate to map the whole ocean floor. At the beginning of the project, only 6 per cent of the world's ocean bottom had been surveyed to today's standards; as of June 2022, the project had recorded 23.4 per cent mapped. About 14,500,000 square kilometres (5,600,000 sq mi) of new bathymetric data ...

  4. File:English Channel location map.svg - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Strait of Dover - Wikipedia

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    The deep sea floor east of Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, connecting to the Atlantic via the Pentland Firth in the last glaciation (of over 300,000 years) is a necessary pre-condition for the relatively late cutting through of the Strait to the south. NASA Satellite image December 2002

  6. Bathymetry - Wikipedia

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    Satellites are also used to measure bathymetry. Satellite radar maps deep-sea topography by detecting the subtle variations in sea level caused by the gravitational pull of undersea mountains, ridges, and other masses. On average, sea level is higher over mountains and ridges than over abyssal plains and trenches. [11]

  7. Module:Location map/data/English Channel - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. List of shoals and sandbanks in the southern North Sea

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    Typically, sandbanks of the English Channel and southern North Sea rise 10 to 25 m above the sea floor and are 10 to 30 km long and 1 to 3 km wide. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] [ 3 ] The volume of material in some of the banks has been estimated at between 70 and 1100 Million m 3 .

  9. List of seas on Earth - Wikipedia

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    The World Ocean. For example, the Law of the Sea states that all of the World Ocean is "sea", [8] [9] [10] [b] and this is also common usage for "the sea". Any large body of water with "Sea" in the name, including lakes. River – a narrow strip of water that flows over land from a higher elevation to a lower one