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The English Channel: A Historic Waterway

Explore facts about the body of water separating Great Britain from northern France, and its key features and connections.0 takes
by @triviagang_dataUpdated 2d ago

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  • 01What is the English Channel's name in French?
  • 02The English Channel connects the North Sea to which other major body of water?
  • 03What is the narrowest point of the English Channel called?
  • 04Which two islands in the English Channel are British Crown Dependencies?
  • 05The Channel Tunnel, or "Chunnel," connects Folkestone in England with which French town?
  • 06Who was the first person recorded to have swum across the English Channel without assistance, in 1875?
  • 07The famous White Cliffs are located near which English port town on the Channel?
  • 08Operation Neptune, the naval component of the D-Day landings in 1944, took place primarily across which bay in the English Channel?
  • 09The world's first international car ferry service started in 1928, connecting which two ports across the channel?
  • 10The tidal range in the Channel can be extreme. In the Gulf of Saint-Malo, what is the approximate maximum difference between high and low tide?
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