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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: Channels of the United Kingdom, English Channel, Solent, Sounds of Scotland, Strait of Dover, Pentland Firth, Eddystone Lighthouse, Goodwin Sands, Yell Sound, 1580 Dover Straits earthquake, 1929 Imperial Airways Handley Page W.10 crash, Cross-Channel guns in the Second World War, Menai Strait, Channel Fleet, Gulf of Corryvreckan, 1954 Swissair Convair CV-240 crash, 1934 Hillman's Airways de Havilland Dragon Rapide crash, North Channel, St George's Channel, Start Point lighthouse, Battle of the Solent, Weald-Artois Anticline, 1934 Air France Wibault 282T crash, Gutter Sound, The Minch, Solent Way, Varne Bank, Solent Sky, Southampton Maritime Museum, Sound of Islay, The Downs, Langdon Bay, Kent, Bramble Bank, Sound of Harris, Walney Channel, Firth of Lorn, Sound of Sleat, Sound of Arisaig, Sound of Jura, Hurd's Deep, Spithead, Start Bay, Uyeasound, Straits of Moyle, Inner Sound, Scotland, Balta Sound, Eynhallow Sound, Kilbrannan Sound, Clestrain Sound, Sound of Bute, Soay Sound, Bluemull Sound, Sound of Mull, Sound of Iona. Excerpt: The English Channel (French: , Breton: , Cornish: ), often referred to simply as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Great Britain from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. It is about 560 km (350 mi) long and varies in width from 240 km (150 mi) at its widest, to only 34 km (21 mi) in the Strait of Dover. It is the smallest of the shallow seas around the continental shelf of Europe, covering an area of some 75,000 km (29,000 sq mi). Map of the English Channel The International Hydrographic Organization defines the limits of the English Channel as follows: On the West. A line joining Isle Vierge ( ) to Lands End ( ). On the East. The Southwestern limit of the North Sea. The IHO defines the southwestern limit of the North Sea as "a line joining t...
