Jurassic Coast
The Jurassic Coast is the popular name given to a 95 mile long stretch of coastline in southern England, incorporating parts of the east Devon and Dorset coasts.Photo: JimChampion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Saffron Blaze, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Paleontological site
- Description: World Heritage Site in England
- Also known as: “Dorset and East Devon Coast”
Jurassic Coast
- Category: coast
- Location: Purbeck District, Dorset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.6228° or 50° 37′ 22″ northLongitude
-2.6568° or 2° 39′ 24″ westElevation
89 feet (27 metres)Open location code
9C2VJ8FV+47OpenStreetMap ID
way 334515282GeoNames ID
8740092Wikidata ID
Q575976
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Jurassic Coast” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الساحل الجوراسي”
- Armenian: “Յուրայի ափ”
- Basque: “Kostalde jurasikoa”
- Belarusian: “Юрскае ўзбярэжжа”
- Catalan: “Costa Juràssica”
- Catalan: “Jurassic Coast”
- Cebuano: “Jurassic Coast”
- Central Kurdish: “کەناری جوراسیک”
- Chinese: “侏罗纪海岸”
- Chinese: “侏羅紀海岸”
- Chinese: “多塞特-東德文海岸”
- Chinese: “多塞特和東德文海岸”
- Croatian: “Jurska obala”
- Czech: “Jurské pobřeží”
- Danish: “Jurakysten”
- Danish: “Jurassic Coast”
- Dutch: “Dorset en de kust van Oost-Devon”
- Dutch: “Jurassic Coast”
- Esperanto: “Ĵurasia Marbordo”
- Esperanto: “Jurassic Marbordo”
- Finnish: “Dorsetin ja Itä-Devonin rannikko”
- Finnish: “Jurassic Coast”
- French: “Jurassic Coast”
- French: “Littoral du Dorset et de l'est du Devon”
- French: “littoral du Dorset et de l’est du Devon”
- French: “Littoral du Dorset et de l’est du Devon”
- Galician: “Costa Xurásica”
- Georgian: “იურული სანაპირო”
- German: “Jura-Küste”
- German: “Jurassic Coast”
- German: “Küste von Dorset und East Devon”
- Hebrew: “דורסט וחוף דבון המזרחי”
- Hebrew: “חוף היורה”
- Hindi: “जुरासिक तट”
- Indonesian: “Pantai Jurassic”
- Indonesian: “Pesisir Jurassic”
- Irish: “Cósta Iúrasach”
- Italian: “Jurassic Coast”
- Japanese: “ジュラシック・コースト”
- Lithuanian: “Juros periodo krantas”
- Maltese: “Kosta Ġurassika”
- Maltese: “Kosta ta‘ Dorset u tal-Lvant ta’ Devon”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jurassic Coast”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jurassic Coast”
- Norwegian: “Jurassic Coast”
- Persian: “ساحل ژوراسیک”
- Polish: “Jurassic Coast”
- Polish: “Wybrzeże Jurajskie”
- Portuguese: “Costa Jurássica”
- Russian: “Юрское побережье”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Jurska obala”
- Slovenian: “Jurrasic Coast”
- Slovenian: “Obala Dorseta in East Devona”
- Spanish: “Costa de Dorset y del este de Devon”
- Spanish: “Costa del Jurasico”
- Spanish: “Costa del Jurásico”
- Spanish: “Costa jurasica”
- Spanish: “Costa Jurásica”
- Spanish: “Jurassic Coast”
- Spanish: “Litoral de Dorset y del este de Devon”
- Swedish: “Dorsets och östra Devons kuster”
- Swedish: “Jurassic Coast (udde i Storbritannien)”
- Swedish: “Jurassic Coast”
- Turkish: “Jurassic Coast”
- Ukrainian: “Юрське узбережжя”
- Vietnamese: “Bờ biển kỷ Jura”
- Vietnamese: “Jurassic Coast”
- Welsh: “Arfordir Jwrasig”
- Western Panjabi: “جوراسک کوسٹ”
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