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English Channel
The English Channel (French: La Manche) is the part of the Atlantic Ocean that separates the island of Great Britain from northern France and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic。 It is about 560 km (350 miles) long and at its widest is 240 km (150 miles)。 The Strait of Dover is t...全部
English Channel
The English Channel (French: La Manche) is the part of the Atlantic Ocean that separates the island of Great Britain from northern France and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic。
It is about 560 km (350 miles) long and at its widest is 240 km (150 miles)。 The Strait of Dover is the narrowest part of the channel, being only 34 km (21 miles) from Dover to Cap Gris Nez, and is located at the eastern end of the English Channel, where it meets the North Sea。
During the period of ancient Roman hegemony the channel was known in Latin as the Oceanus Britannicus and afterwards as the British Sea。
In Victorian times, the Channel was also known as the silver streak。
William Camden in Britannia (1586) says it is called the British Sea but also The Channel and by English sailors The Sleeve。
It is called the English Channel ("canalites Anglie") on a map of about 1450。
The channel is relatively shallow, with an average depth of about 120 m at its widest part, reducing to about 45 m between Dover and Calais。
From there eastwards the sea continues to shallow to about 26 m in the Broad Fourteens where it lies over the watershed of the former land bridge between East Anglia and the Low Countries。
The Channel Islands lie in the channel, close to the French side。 The Isles of Scilly in the United Kingdom and Ushant in France mark the western end of the Channel。
The French département of Manche, which incorporates the Cotentin Peninsula that juts out into the channel, takes its name from the surrounding seaway。
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