Goodwin Sands
Goodwin Sands is a 10-mile-long sandbank at the southern end of the North Sea lying 6 miles off the Deal coast in Kent, England. The area consists of a layer of approximately 25 m depth of fine sand resting on an Upper Chalk platform belonging to the same geological feature that incorporates the White Cliffs of Dover.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Deal.
Deal
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Deal is a coastal town in Kent, England, which lies where the North Sea and the English Channel meet, 8 miles north-east of Dover and 8 miles south of Ramsgate.
Goodwin Sands
- Type: Shoal
- Description: sandbank off the east coast of England
- Categories: Char (River Island) and landform
- Location: Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Goodwin Sands” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Goodwin Sands”
- Chinese: “古德温沙洲”
- Dutch: “Goodwin Sands”
- French: “Banc de Goodwin”
- German: “Goodwin Sands”
- Italian: “Goodwin Sands”
- Japanese: “グッドウィン・サンズ”
- Japanese: “グッドウイン砂洲”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Goodwin Sands”
- Russian: “Гудвиновы пески”
- Russian: “Гудуин-Сандс”
- Russian: “Гудуин”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Goodwin Sands”
- Swedish: “Goodwin Sands”
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