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  2. Hurd's Deep - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Strait of Dover - Wikipedia

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    The Channel Tunnel now provides an alternative route, crossing beneath the strait at an average depth of 45 m (148 ft) below the seabed. The town of Dover gives its name to one of the sea areas of the British Shipping Forecast .

  4. Bass Strait - Wikipedia

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    Jennings' study of the submarine topography of Bass Strait [14] described the bathymetric Bass Basin, a shallow depression approximately 120 km (70 mi) wide and 400 km (250 mi) long (over 65,000 km 2 [25,000 sq mi] in area) in the centre of Bass Strait, a maximum depth is the channel between Inner Sister Island and Flinders Island, which ...

  5. Glossary of nautical terms (A–L) - Wikipedia

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    1. The shore along a channel. 2. The whole area around the place where a channel meets the ocean. break bulk cargo. Also breakbulk cargo. Goods that must be loaded aboard a ship individually and not in intermodal containers or in bulk, carried by a general cargo ship. breaker 1. A shallow portion of a reef over which waves break. 2.

  6. Firth of Clyde - Wikipedia

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    In 2014, 71,200 hectares (712 km 2) at the south of the Firth between Kintyre Peninsula and the Rhins of Galloway, on the North Channel boundary. Designated a Marine Protected Area, the (Clyde Sill MPA) , the NatureScot Site Code is 10414, the EU Site Code is 555560461. [ 44 ]

  7. English Channel - Wikipedia

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    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.

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  9. Strait of Messina - Wikipedia

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    The strait's maximum depth is about 250 m (820 ft). The strait has strong tidal currents that create a unique marine ecosystem. [1] The rock in the town of Scilla, Calabria at the north of the strait and a natural whirlpool in the northern portion of the strait have been linked to the Greek legend of Scylla and Charybdis. [2]