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It is the only fixed link between the island of Great Britain and the European mainland. At its lowest point, it is 75 m (246 ft) below the sea bed and 115 m (377 ft) below sea level. [5] [6] [7] At 37.9 km (23.5 miles), it has the longest underwater section of any tunnel in the world and is the third-longest railway tunnel in the world.
The Channel has traffic on both the UK–Europe and North Sea–Atlantic routes, and is the world's busiest seaway, with over 500 ships per day. [54] Following an accident in January 1971 and a series of disastrous collisions with wreckage in February, [ 55 ] the Dover TSS, [ 56 ] the world's first radar -controlled traffic separation scheme ...
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 shortest distance across the strait, at approximately 20 miles (32 kilometres), is ...
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An undersea water supply tunnel with a length of 5,551 m (18,212 ft), [31] named the Bosporus Water Tunnel, was constructed in 2012 to transfer water from the Melen Creek in Düzce Province (to the east of the Bosporus strait, in northwestern Anatolia) to the European side of Istanbul, a distance of 185 km (115 mi).
The border between the countries of France and the United Kingdom in Europe is a maritime border that stretches along the Channel, the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.The Channel Tunnel links the two countries underground and is defined as a 'land frontier', and not widely recognised as a land border.
The Atlantic Ocean has the busiest ocean trade routes in the world. Current unresolved disputes over whether particular waters are "International waters" include: Arctic Ocean : While Canada, Denmark, Russia and Norway all regard parts of the Arctic seas as national waters or internal waters , most European Union countries and the United States ...
The World Open Water Swimming Association note that the North Channel, which it also refers to parenthetically as the North (Irish) Channel, is part of the Ocean's Seven series. [13] This is a set of seven long-distance open-water swims considered the marathon swimming equivalent of the Seven Summits mountaineering challenge. [citation needed]