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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 ...
A thalweg is the center of the principal navigable channel of the waterway (which is presumed to be the deepest part). [8] If there are multiple navigable channels in a river, the one principally used for downstream travel (likely having the strongest current) is used. [8] The definition has been used in specific descriptions as well.
Beaufort's Dyke is a natural glacial formed trench within the North Channel between Northern Ireland and Scotland. The dyke is 50 kilometres (25 nautical miles) long, 3.5 kilometres (2 nautical miles) wide and 200–312 m (700–1,000 ft) deep. The Dyke is one of the deepest areas of the European continental shelf. [1]
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. It is the busiest shipping area in the world. [2]
The channel begins north of the Isle of Man and is customarily considered part of the Irish Sea, the channel runs north-west into the Atlantic Ocean. [3] Within the channel is the Beaufort's Dyke, at 312 metres (1,024 ft) it is the deepest part. [4]
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]
Vivari Channel in Albania links Lake Butrint with the Straits of Corfu. In physical geography and hydrology, a channel is a landform on which a relatively narrow body of water is situated, such as a river, river delta or strait. While channel typically refers to a natural formation, the cognate term canal denotes a similar artificial structure.
It consists of the northern access channel of 22 km (14 mi), the canal itself of 162.25 km (100 + 7 ⁄ 8 mi) and the southern access channel of 9 km (5 + 1 ⁄ 2 mi). [137] The so-called New Suez Canal, functional since 6 August 2015, [138] currently has a new parallel canal in the middle part, with its length over 35 kilometres (22 mi). The ...