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English Channel

An arm of the Atlantic Ocean between western France and southern England. It opens into the North Sea and is traversed by a train-ferry service. A rail tunnel beneath the English Channel, known as the "chunnel," connecting Folkstone, England and Calais, France, was opened in 1994.

English Channel

(Placename) an arm of the Atlantic Ocean between S England and N France, linked with the North Sea by the Strait of Dover. Length: about 560 km (350 miles). Width: between 32 km (20 miles) and 161 km (100 miles)

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Noun

English Channel - an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that forms a channel between France and Britain

Battle of the Spanish Armada - in the English Channel a small fleet of British ships successfully defeated the large armada sent from Spain by Philip II to invade England

Channel Island - any of a group of British islands in the English Channel off the northern coast of France

Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean - the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east

Solent - a strait of the English Channel between the coast of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight

Isle of Wight, Wight - an isle and county of southern England in the English Channel

Translations

English Channel n
the English Channel → la Manche
English Heritage n organisme britannique de protection du patrimoine historique

English Channel n the English Channel → il Canale della Manica

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Artois
Basse-Normandie
Battle of the Spanish Armada
Bleriot
Blériot
Brittany
Channel Island
Channel Tunnel
Cherbourg
chunnel
Dieppe
Dorset
Eastbourne
Eddystone Rocks
Ederle
Gertrude Caroline Ederle
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Hastings

9780786438556 Nelson's navy in fiction and film; depictions of British sea power in the Napoleonic era.

Nelson's navy in fiction and film; depictions of British sea power in ... by Reference & Research Book News

Byline: ED CHADWICK BRITISH Sea Power are a rare breed - a rock band that make epic music but don't take themselves too seriously.

Loyal fans for epic sounds; BRITISH SEA POWER Carling Academy ... by Birmingham Mail (England)

Radiohead, Estelle, Last Shadow Puppets, Adele, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, British Sea Power, Rachel Unthank and the Winterset, Laura Marling, Portico Quartet, Burial and Neon Neon were shortlisted.

Elbow take the Mercury album gong; AWARDS by The Mirror (London, England)

British gum

British Honduras

British House of Commons

British House of Lords

British Imperial System

British India

British Indian Ocean Territory