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Dungeness is a headland on the coast of Kent, England, formed largely of a shingle beach in the form of a cuspate foreland.
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There is also a story that, after his victory at Dungeness, Tromp attached a broom to his mast as a symbol that he had swept the British from the sea.
Sequim is located along the Dungeness River near the base of the Olympic Mountains.
The area is also known for its Dungeness crab.
The Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge is located just north of the city, near the mouth of the Dungeness River.
As well as being a tourist attraction, this railway is a public service between the small towns and villages between Hythe and Dungeness and is under contract to the local council to transport children to and from The Marsh Academy in New Romney.
Jarman is also remembered for his famous shingle cottage-garden, created in the latter years of his life, in the shadow of Dungeness nuclear power station.
The harbour arm of Hastings is just visible at low tide, as is the nuclear power station at Dungeness a few miles further east.
Dungeness Point is still being added to: although ( especially near Dungeness and Hythe ) a daily operation is in place to counter the reshaping of the shingle banks, using boats to dredge and move the drifting shingle.
The line is still in place about a mile short of Dungeness and is used to transfer waste from the nuclear power plant.
Dungeness A has now ceased electricity production and is in the process of being de-commissioned.
Dungeness nuclear power station may refer to either one of a pair of nuclear power stations, only one of which is still operational, located on the Dungeness headland in the south east of Kent, England.
Dungeness A is a legacy Magnox power station, that was connected to the National Grid in 1965 and has reached the end of its life.
Dungeness B is an advanced gas-cooled reactor ( AGR ) power station consisting of two 615 MW reactors, which began operations in 1983 and 1985 respectively.
Dungeness is also the name of the power station and a few other nearby buildings near the beach, and of an important ecological site at the same location.
Dungeness is one of the largest expanses of shingle in the world.
This is recognised and protected mostly through its conservation designations as a National Nature Reserve ( NNR ), a Special Protection Area ( SPA ), a Special Area of Conservation ( SAC ) and part of the Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) of Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye Bay.
Dungeness and headland
The name Dungeness derives from Old Norse nes: " headland ", with the first part probably connected with the nearby Denge Marsh.
The name " Dungeness " refers to the Dungeness headland in England.
The name " Dungeness " comes from the Dungeness headland in England.
Oglethorpe established a hunting lodge called Dungeness, named after a headland in Kent, England.
* Dungeness ( headland ), shingle promontory and site of a nuclear power station in Kent, England
Dungeness is the headland of a shingle beach in Kent, England, which must be rounded to approach the Thames Estuary.
Dungeness and on
While anchored in Dungeness Bay on the south shore of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, third lieutenant Joseph Baker made an observation of Mount Baker, which Vancouver recorded in his journal:
California's Dungeness crab, California halibut, and Pacific salmon fisheries rely on the bay as a nursery.
Interim moves to Southend and West Malling were followed by final selection of an area covered by grazing land on the edge of the Dungeness shingle desert on the Kentish coast close to the village of Lydd.
Later, he erected a hunting lodge on Cumberland named Dungeness, which was predecessor to the famous Greene and Carnegie Dungeness Mansions.
As a migrant it leaves its breeding areas and winters on sheltered coasts or inland lakes of the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea, northern Germany and the Low Countries, with small number reaching Great Britain ( for example, at Dungeness ), mostly at regular sites.
Dungeness Spit in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, on the U. S. Pacific coast.
He died on 25 March 1818, at Dungeness, on Cumberland Island, Georgia.
On 3 September 1940, four German spies landed near the town on the coast between Hythe and Dungeness, but were soon caught.
Begun in 1942, the plan included a thousand miles of pipelines linking Grain on the Hoo peninsula, and other oil refineries, first to Dungeness and soon after to Sandown on the Isle of Wight, where pumping stations were set up to successfully carry over 6, 000 tons of fuel a day to Cherbourg.
Edgar ended his days as a coastguard at Dungeness on the southern edge of the parish .</ ref > Gravestone now preserved in side chapel of church </ ref >
Major salmon-bearing rivers on the Olympic Peninsula include, clockwise from the southwest: the Humptulips, the Quinault, the Queets, the Quillayute, Bogachiel, the Sol Duc, the Lyre, the Elwha ( see Elwha Ecosystem Restoration ), the Dungeness, the Dosewallips, the Hamma Hamma, the Skokomish, and the Wynoochee River.
* May 9 – An Air France Wibault 282T-12 airliner crashes into the English Channel off Dungeness, Kent, England, killing all six people on board.
Dungeness B was the first commercial scale AGR power station to be constructed, the design being based on the much smaller Windscale AGR prototype ; the WAGR.
The government did not include Dungeness C in its draft National Policy Statement published on 9 November 2009, citing environmental reasons and concerns about coastal erosion and associated flood risk.
From 1961 to 1984, Dungeness power station also housed the mercury arc valves of the static inverter plant converting AC into DC for transmission on HVDC Cross-Channel, the high-voltage direct current power cable carrying electric power across the English Channel to France.
A branch from the Marshlink Line at Appledore to New Romney was opened by the South Eastern Railway: it had a short branch to a station at Dungeness, which closed to passengers on 4 July 1937 ; it was closed completely when the Lydd to New Romney section closed on 6 March 1967.
The acoustic mirror at Dungeness is featured on the cover of the album Ether Song by the British indie band Turin Brakes.
Dungeness and coast
The peak allows views of the south east coast from Dungeness to the east, to Selsey Bill in the west.
When it became clear that Napoleon was planning an invasion of England, Moore was put in charge of the defence of the coast from Dover to Dungeness.
Reinforced concrete caissons constructed by civil engineering contractors around the coast of Britain, collected and sunk at Dungeness, the Cant and Pagham.
The track runs parallel to coast through Dymchurch and New Romney to Dungeness.
The Dungeness crab, Metacarcinus magister ( formerly Cancer magister ), is a species of crab that inhabits eelgrass beds and water bottoms on the west coast of North America.
The carapace widths of mature Dungeness crabs may reach in some areas off the coast of Washington, but are typically under.
In 1880, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine published an article by Ober about Dungeness, a plantation on the barrier island of Cumberland Island on the southern Atlantic coast of the state of Georgia.
Dungeness, Romney Marsh and Rye is a large site of, lying along the coast, and extending into the neighbouring county of Kent.
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