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1 According to the ________ they began to settle in Britain in 851.

2 In 55 BC ________ invaded claiming that the Britons had aided the Veneti against him the previous year.

3 The youngest recorded sailors to cross the channel by boat are Hugo Sunnucks and Guy Harrison aged 15 (formula 18 ________).

4 The Channel is of geologically recent origins, having been dry land for most of the ________ period.

5 For the UK ________ the English Channel is divided into the areas of (from the West):

6 Which of the following is a quote about/from English Channel?

7 Many travellers cross beneath the English Channel using the ________.

8 The fiefdom of Normandy was created for the ________ leader Rollo (also known as Robert of Normandy).

9 The English Channel (French: La Manche, "the sleeve", Dutch: Het Kanaal, "the channel") is an arm of the ________ that separates England from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic.

10 More successful was the later Operation Overlord (also known as ________), a massive invasion of German-occupied France by Allied troops.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Dover Straits earthquake of 1580 raised tsunamis in the English Channel, flooding Calais and Boulogne?
  • the French torpedo boat La Combattante ferried General de Gaulle and other Free French leaders across the English Channel from Portsmouth to Courseulles in Normandy on 14 July 1944?
  • the Mahé River in India was nicknamed the "English Channel" because it separated British-ruled Thalassery from French-ruled Mahé?
  • the child duo known as the Aquatots planned to swim the English Channel in 1951 but were forbidden from attempting by both the British and French governments?
  • a Dunne D.8 flew from Eastchurch to Villacoublay, crossing the English Channel, in August 1912?
  • British comedian Tim FitzHigham was the first man to cross the English Channel in a bathtub?
  • ÃŽle Vierge, in the southwestern corner of the English Channel, has the tallest stone lighthouse in Europe?
  • Phil Packer (pictured), who was rendered paraplegic in 2008 by a rocket attack while serving in the Iraq War, has since rowed the English Channel, climbed El Capitan, and completed two London Marathons?
  • Seb Clover, who sailed the English Channel solo at age 11, set a world record at age 15 when he raced against his father in an Atlantic Ocean crossing?
  • William the Conqueror's transport of over 2000 horses across the English Channel during the Norman invasion of England is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry (pictured)?
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