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History, Schlachten und Geheimnisse der meistbefahrenen Wasserstraße

History, Schlachten und Geheimnisse der meistbefahrenen Wasserstraße

DThe Ärmelkkanal is one of the most famous waterways in the world. There is southern France in northern France and the most important shipping area in the world, with its 500 ships per day, the narrow sea path use.

The low power of the milk channels on the Schauplatz of Schlachten, invasions and heroic deeds and which in the Laufe der Jahrhunderte an immense beddeutung verliehen. Those are bad, the route that is covered as a barrier, which is so complex and unpredictable, is the flow and the speed, which is seen through time.

If you want to follow the next Gallery for a no longer the same and factual journey, click on the milk channel.

Wall tiles from Bayeux

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Wall tiles from Bayeux

De Wandteppich von Bayeux aus dem 11. Jahrhundert posits de Ereignisse de, de Normandische Eroberung Englands durch Wilhelm, Herzog der Normandie, führten – one of the later invasions of Great Britain in the Channel. The image said an Ausschnitt aus dem Wandteppich, der die Landung von Schiffen in England and the Aussteigen von Männern and Pferden said. Der Wandteppich is located in the Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux in Bayeux in der Normandie, Ausgestellt.

Die meistbefahrenen Schifffahrtswege der Welt

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Die meistbefahrenen Schifffahrtswege der Welt

The Ärmelkkanaal is located on the Great Britain-Europe route as well as on the North Sea-Atlantic route and is with over 500 ships per day the most important sea route in the world. The image said an AIS display (Automatic identification system), which the Verkehr im Kanal announces. It is now no longer possible to check with AIS, most fishing boats, sports boats, inland vessels and vessels with a speed of 300 tons will also never have been seen before.

Coastal resorts on the canal

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Coastal resorts on the canal

The image said Osborne House, King Victoria’s summer residence on the Isle of Wight, on the Big Island in the Milk Canal. Ab dem späten 18. Jahrhundert wuchsen de Siedlungen and um de English Kanalküste in England schnell zu blühenden Seebädern here, started by the Assoziation mit dem Königtum en der Mittel- und Oberschicht.

The first person swims through the Ärmelkanal

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The first person swims through the Ärmelkanal

Captain Matthew Webb (1848–1883) of Dawley in the English County of Shropshire war with the first man, the milk channel through time. On 24 August 1875, after 22 hours, he went into the water near Calais on land.

Tunnel view

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Tunnel view

1856 underbreitetete der Franzosische Ingenieur Aimé Thomé de Gamond Napoleon III. a Vorschlag for a Bergmanische Eisenbahntunnel through the Ärmelkanal vom Cap Gris-Nez zum Eastwater Point near Dover, with a Schachtanlage on Halber Strecke on the Varne-Sandbank flache. A delighted idea?

Channel Tunnel

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Channel Tunnel

Offensive not! In 1994, the Kanaltunnel was one of the most festive connections between Great Britain and the European Festland. There is a length of 50.5 km and a long distance to the tunnel der Welt (37.8 km). There are peculiar three tunnels that can use a tunnel to use a smaller service tunnel, so that they can not be used.

Channel Value Markings

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Channel Value Markings

The Mont Saint-Michel in Normandy is one of the most experienced and capable Wahrzeichen am Ärmelkanal.

First Flug over the Ärmelkanal

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First Flug over the Ärmelkanal

On 25. July 1909, the French Airline Louis Blériot (1872–1936) was born, when the first flight over the Ärmelkanal below took place. Er schaffte dies in 36 Minuten und 30 Sekunden mit seinem Eindecker Blériot XI.

Omaha Beach

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Omaha Beach

The code word “Omaha” was 8 kilometers away from the coast of Normandy, on June 6, 1944, the American invasion as the invasion of Germany by the Franconian lands. Omaha war one of the nice beaches in Normandy, which was a schicksalschacht as a landing sortie. Here is one of the bluttige Kämpfe.

Evacuation of Dünkirchen

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Evacuation of Dünkirchen

A flotilla of over 800 ships in flight on 26 May and 4 June 1940 on the Ärmelkkanaal, to evacuate 338,226 troops of the British Expeditionary Force, who are partying in the French port of Dunkirk (Dunkirk), in Rahmen a ridge of plants with the m Code name “Operation Dynamo”. If the picture occurs, it could happen that the evacuation takes place at some point in Dover.

Deutsche Besetzung der Kanalinseln

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Deutsche Besetzung der Kanalinseln

The Channels were part of the British Empire, which was the target of the Wehrmacht’s Second World Wars.

Jurassic Coast

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Jurassic Coast

The Jurassic Coast is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the English Channel Coast in South England. The site has reached a size of 185 million years. These well-founded fossil groups include Creatures, Insects, Molluscs, Stachelhäuters, Fish, Amphibians, Reptiles and some Saugetiere.

Vanishing by Glenn Miller

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Vanishing by Glenn Miller

Das Flugzeug, in the American Big-Band-Leader and Posaunist Glenn Miller (1904–1944), the war started on December 15, 1944 at the Flug über the Melkkanaal on the Weg nach Parijs. Signal Körper was not recovered.

Wider point

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Wider point

The extensive Stelle ofs Kanalen are located near Lyme Bay and the Gulf of Saint-Malo (Bild). Here the Armel Canal is 240km wide.

Narrowest Point

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Narrowest Point

The Straße von Dover from Kap Gris-Nez seen. The white clips of Dover and the English coast are a clear tag of France on their view. In the Straße von Dover you will find the narrowest point of the lake road, which is only 34 km away.

Chausey

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Chausey

Chausey is a Gruppe of small islands, inselchen and rocks off the coast of Normandy. Chausey is excluded from the channel. If you have reached a French-speaking goal, Chausey will soon be out of contact with the other channels, the British Chronicles have disappeared.

Is there something behind the name?

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Is there something behind the name?

Bis ins 18. Jahrhundert hatte der Ärmelkanal keinen festen Namen in English. There is a war going on during the “Narrow Sea” bekannt. Der Franzosische name the Manche if you think it’s 17. Used for years, possibly as a hint at the source shape of the channels (the farmer to cheat the arm).

The best geological Merkmal

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The best geological Merkmal

Die Goodwin Sands, a 16 km long sandbank, is located south of the Nordsee and in the large Schifffahrtsroute through the Straße von Dover, which fords the Tausende von Schiffen. Gezeiten und Strömungen verschieben de Sand standard und machinisch Goodwin zum gefährlichsten geologische Merkmal in the milk canal, where the newer Kannte Varne Bank ebenfalls a standal Sorge for the British Coast Guard and the Schifffahrt Darstellt. The image said the wreckage of the SS Mahratta in Goodwin Sands in the year 1909.

Virgin Island

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Virgin Island

Île Vierge, an island located 1.5 km off the northwest coast of Brittany, marks the southwestern border of the Ärmelkkanaal. Here you will find the highest European lighthouse, Europas, which was erected in 1845 and was built in the 20th century at 33 metres above ground.

Tiefster Punkt des Ärmelkanals

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Tiefster Punkt des Ärmelkkanaal

Hurd’s Deep is an Unterwassertal, located in the northwest of the Canal area. Its maximum reach is 180 m and it is the most punkt in the Milk Canal. The story here is from a number of left to right on an Auszug on a British Admiralty chart from 1955 to see.

Dangers to shipping

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Dangers to shipping

Over 40% of the food supply in Britain, if the washer is dry, it is one or more in the unlimited amount of milk channels. One of the war years of the MSC is accidents Naplesdied on January 18, 2007 with quickly stranded 1,700 tons of gefährlicher Ladung in der Lyme Bay (photo).

Spanish Armada

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Spanish Armada

The Spanish Armada, a Flotte from 130 Schiffen, which arrived in 1588 from Coruña in See, was built in the Ärmelkanal kanal and später of English Feuerschiffen (Schießpulver loaded Schiffe) for the Coast of Calais zerstreut.

More bakeries

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More bakeries

Smile National Geographic the Ärmelkanal houses alle Arten von Meeresbakterien der Welt (or the most common die überwiegende Mehrheit von ihnen).

Bright

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Bright

They are the closest urban district and the English Coast of the Channel in Brighton and Hove, with a population of 277,103 people (Stand 2021).

Le Havre

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Le Havre

The closest living quarters of the city with 165,830 living quarters (as of 2020). In 2005, UNESCO declared the Innenstadt of Le Havre zum Weltkulturerbe.

Flight board

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Flight board

On August 4, 2019, Franky completed the search for the milk channel in 22 minutes (with a fuel stop in the middle) with a Flyboard Air, an Art Jetpack/Hoverboard with gas turbines.

Canal migrants

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Canal migrants

2020 has followed more than 5,500 people in small boats through the milk channel of France from the überquert, in the Hoffnung, as a new Leben in the Vereinigten Königreich aufzubauen. In the picture is a French patrol boat that makes an English Grenzschiff flight 19.3 km from Hafen von Dover. There are 13 migrants and signs that are very lucky, the milk channel in England, in England.

Vehicle

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Vehicle

There are currently 15 connections across the Channel, which connect the United Kingdom and Ireland with France and the Channel Islands. Der Raddampfer Rob Roy The first Passagierfähre war died on 10 June 1821 and the Ärmelkanal überquerte. I am a picture of the Hafen of Dover.

Cross the canal with the Luftkissenboot

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Cross the canal with the Luftkissenboot

Am 25. July 1959, am 50. Jahresta des Kanalüberquerungsfluges von Louis Blériot, überquerte das Luftkissenboot SR.N1 the Armel Canal from Calais to Dover in a little more than two hours. One of the passages and signs that the first Canal Crossing Flights War Christopher Cockerell is the seeker of the Luftkissenfahrzeugs. The image saw the SR.N1 at the Ankunft in Dover.

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