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• Downs (sea area)
  '''The Downs''' are a sheltered roadstead in the [[English Channel]] or [[North Sea]] off the east coast of [[Kent]], between the [[No ...he Dutch navy destroyed a Spanish fleet which had sought refuge in neutral English waters. From Elizabethan times, the presence of Downs helped to make Deal o
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• White Cliffs of Dover
  ...s in Kent, forming part of the coastline of [[Great Britain]] facing the [[Strait of Dover]]. The cliffs are part of the [[North Downs]] formation. The cliff ...ritain because they face towards Europe across the narrowest part of the [[English Channel]], where invasions have historically threatened and against which t
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• Thanet
  <blockquote>"Thanet is an island in the Ocean in the Gallic channel [English Channel], separated from Britannia by a narrow estuary, with fruitful field ...ated in about AD 410. According to Bede's ''Ecclesiastical History of the English People'', Vortigern, King of the Britons, sought assistance from the fierce
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• Llangaffo
  ...ublisher=Wales Directory}}</ref> The mountains of [[Snowdonia]] across the strait in [[Caernarfonshire]] terminate in the west with the abrupt precipices of ...th-century rural church, consistently articulated and detailed in an Early English style".<ref name=List>{{jura|5508|Church of St Caffo}}</ref><ref name=CinW>
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• Diocese of Bangor
  ...s, around 546 by Saint Deiniol. When Augustine came to convert the heathen English, he did not receive submission from Bangor not the other churches among the ...he year 530 a man of noble birth named Deiniol settled here by the [[Menai Strait]], granted land by the king, possibly Maelgwn himself. He enclosed it with
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• Yell Sound
  '''Yell Sound''' is the strait running between [[Yell]] and [[Mainland, Shetland]]. It is the boundary bet ...of the island's name; almost all the place-names of Shetland are Norse or English, but Yell might originally have been a Pictish name of unknown meaning. The
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• Bass Rock
  {{cquote|ane wounderful crag, risand within the sea, with so narrow and strait hals [passage] that na schip nor boit bot allanerlie at ane part of it. Thi ...poetry to come down to us, indeed one of the finest poems ever written in English. James Fisher (1912 - 1970) analysed the reference to sea birds in ''The S
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• Solent
  The '''Solent''' is the strait within [[Hampshire]] separating the [[Isle of Wight]] from the mainland of ...e of uncertain origin and meaning."<ref>A.D. Mills, ''Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names'', 2nd ed. (Oxford University Press, 1998: ISBN 0-19-280074-4),
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• Warrenpoint
  ...ford Lough]] and is separated from the [[Republic of Ireland]] by a narrow strait. The town sprang up within the townland of Ringmackilroy. It is locally nic ...location of their assumed attackers. This British army fire killed a young English tourist, William Hudson, watching the scene from lower Ferryhill road, wher
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• Antarctic Peninsula
  ...ude [[Bowman Coast]], [[Black Coast]], [[Danco Coast]], [[Davis Coast]], [[English Coast]], [[Fallieres Coast]], [[Loubet Land]], [[Nordenskjold Coast]] and t ...rctic Sound]], [[Erebus and Terror Gulf]], [[George VI Sound]], [[Gerlache Strait]] and the [[Lemaire Channel]]. The Lemaire Channel is a popular destination
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• Ulva
  ...st of [[Mull]], separated from the northern arm of that island by a narrow strait (the Sound of Ulva) and by Loch Tuath, so close that it scarcely seems a se The English name "Ulva" is from the Gaelic, ''Ulbha'', but this may have been corruptio
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• Livingston Island
  [[File:Bransfield-Strait.jpg|200px|left|thumb|Bransfield Strait from Livingston Island]] ...ven miles south-west of Livingston's [[Barnard Point]] in the [[Bransfield Strait]], is a volcano whose caldera forms the sheltered harbour of [[Port Foster]
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• Beaumaris Castle
  ...ul, moated, imposing castle commanding the eastern entrance to the [[Menai Strait]]. It was built as one of the [[Iron Ring]] of castles built by [[King Edw ...of the local populace opened the way for the construction of a prosperous English town, protected by a substantial castle.<ref>{{harvnb|Taylor|2004|pp=5–6}
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• Stanley Harbour
  The harbour is connected to the sea through a strait called "the Narrows", which leads into [[Port William, Falkland Islands|Por ...ntcover&dq=History+of+a+voyage+to+the+Malouine&as_brr=1#PPA223,M1 Abridged English version].</ref> and later as ''Port Jackson''. It became "Stanley Harbour"
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• Caernarfon Castle
  ...tle were sacked in 1294 when Madog ap Llywelyn led a rebellion against the English. Caernarfon was recaptured the following year. During the Glyndŵr Rising o ...early castle was on a peninsula, bounded by the River Seiont, the [[Menai Strait]]; it would have been a motte and bailey, defended by a timber palisade and
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• Gibbs Island
  ...nd eight square miles in area. It is bordered to the south by [[Bransfield Strait]] and to the north by the [[Loper Channel]]. The isthmus of The Spit joins ...se aus Husum, 1875 - 1912. Durch fremde Hand ertrunken. Ruhe in Frieden". (English: "Wilhelm Tolz, Sailor from Husum, 1875-1912. Drowned through alien/strange
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• Template:South Shetlands
  [[Channel Rock (McFarlane Strait)|Channel]] {{dot}} [[Boyd Strait|Boyd]] {{dot}}
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• St Michael's Cave
  ...cords of an attempt to change the name of the cave and rename it after the English patron saint, Saint George. However while the name "St George's Cave" was u ...e end of a subterranean tunnel over 15 miles long which passes under the [[Strait of Gibraltar]]. Legend has it that the Barbary Macaques entered The Rock fr
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• Royal Albert Bridge
  ...ephenson raised the girders of his [[Britannia Bridge]] across the [[Menai Strait]] in the same year.<ref>{{cite book|last = Norrie|first = Charles Matthew|t ...er, Cornish people look at it in the other way; in the song "Cousin Jack", English folk duo Show of Hands sing ''I dream of a bridge on the Tamar, It opens us
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• North Queensferry
  ...sh name "Queensferry" and older than the Scottish Gaelic equivalent of the English name, which is "Port na Banrighinn" (the port of the queen). "Cas Chaolas" ...d other members of her family) supposedly landed in 1068 while fleeing the English court. The house was built during the First World War to house the admiral
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