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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Goodwin Sands
- Type: Wetland
- Description: sandbank off the east coast of England
- Categories: bar and body of water
- Location: Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.2911° or 51° 17′ 28″ northLongitude
1.5411° or 1° 32′ 28″ eastOpen location code
9F337GRR+CFOpenStreetMap ID
way 920071294OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wetlandWikidata ID
Q1494482
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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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