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The English Channel: A Historic Waterway: Multiple Choice
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- 01Operation Neptune, the naval component of the D-Day landings in 1944, took place primarily across which bay in the English Channel?
- 02The famous White Cliffs are located near which English port town on the Channel?
- 03What is the narrowest point of the English Channel called?
- 04Which two islands in the English Channel are British Crown Dependencies?
- 05The English Channel connects the North Sea to which other major body of water?
- 06The world's first international car ferry service started in 1928, connecting which two ports across the channel?
- 07The Channel Tunnel, or "Chunnel," connects Folkestone in England with which French town?
- 08The tidal range in the Channel can be extreme. In the Gulf of Saint-Malo, what is the approximate maximum difference between high and low tide?
- 09What is the English Channel's name in French?
- 10Who was the first person recorded to have swum across the English Channel without assistance, in 1875?