Cap Blanc-Nez (French pronunciation: [kap blɑ̃ ne], literally "Cape White Nose" in English; from Dutch Blankenesse, white headland) is a cape on the Côte...
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Swartenesse ("black cape") to set it apart from Blankenesse "white cape" (Cap Blanc-Nez) to the northeast. The element -nesse is cognate to English -ness, denoting...
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The Battle of Blanc-Nez and Gris-Nez (18 July 1805) was a naval engagement between a combined flotilla of the Batavian Navy and French Imperial Navy led...
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Operation Undergo (section Cap Gris Nez)
formed in the low-lying land at Calais. The landscape around Cap Gris Nez and Cap Blanc Nez nearby, is a continuation of the rolling rural Boulonnais hills...
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Boulogne: the Cap Gris Nez (literally "grey nose cape" in English), reaching an elevation of 50 metres (160 ft) above sea level, and the Cap Blanc Nez (literally...
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memorial obelisks, 75 feet (23 m) high, were erected near Dover and on the Cap Blanc-Nez near Calais in 1921 and 1922. A third was erected in Brooklyn, New York...
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on both sides of the English Channel at Dover, Kent, England, and at Cap Blanc-Nez, Pas de Calais, France, where it forms as sharp individual crystals...
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Cliffs of Dover in Kent, England, as well as their counterparts of the Cap Blanc Nez on the other side of the Dover Strait. The Champagne region of France...
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coasts has created the famous white cliffs of Dover in the UK and the Cap Blanc Nez in France. The Channel Tunnel was bored through solid chalk – compacted...
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final climb of the day, the 900-metre (3,000-foot) ascent up Cote du Cap Blanc-Nez. At the top of the climb, Van Aert broke free and rode solo to the finish...
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among the so-called Adolf Guns) at Lindemann Battery between Calais and Cap Blanc-Nez. The battery was named Lindemann after the fallen captain of the battleship...
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Université d'Artois on the eastern part. Mussel aquaculture in Wissant Cap Gris Nez Cap Blanc Nez Boulogne-sur-Mer Nausicaä Le Touquet Grand-Place of Arras Notre...
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provided by both spotter aircraft and by naval radar sets installed at Cap Blanc-Nez and Cap d’Alprech, south of Outreau, known as DeTe-Gerät (Dezimeter Telegraphie-Gerät...
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village of St Margaret's at Cliffe). It is the geological counterpart of Cap Blanc Nez (lit. Cape White Nose), at the northern extremity of the Boulonnais...
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Wright Flyers (Nos. 2 and 18) with him. On 19 July Latham took off from Cap Blanc-Nez, very near Sangatte, but after only 8 miles (13 km) his Antoinette IV...
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the linguistic border had shifted to the river Lys in the south and Cap-Griz-Nez in the west. During the Middle Ages, the Pas-de-Calais department comprised...
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fourth-category climbs. The last of these categorised climbs, the Côte du Cap Blanc-Nez, is 900 metres (3,000 ft) long with an average of 7.5 per cent and was...
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survived. Münsterland was eventually forced ashore and destroyed west of Cap Blanc-Nez on 21 January 1944 by fire from British coastal artillery after she...
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Company set up a special radio link for the occasion, with one station on Cap Blanc Nez near Sangatte and the other on the roof of the Lord Warden Hotel in...
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11:35 Spitfire Guînes/Audembert 61 28 March 1942 18:50 Spitfire Cap Gris-Nez/Cap Blanc-Nez 73 1 June 1942 13:45 Spitfire 5 km (3.1 mi) west of Blankenberge...
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Upper Cretaceous chalk in Kent, England to that of the Boulonnais at Cap Blanc-Nez in the Pas de Calais, France. It is possible that in the Cromerian Stage...
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St Margaret's Bay was unveiled. Similar memorial obelisks stand at Cap Blanc Nez on the French channel coast, and at John Paul Jones Park near Fort Hamilton...
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The road heads through Wimereux and close to the Cap Gris-Nez (50 m), Wissant and the Cap Blanc-Nez (134 m), here the road passes a Monument to Latham...
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swum a total of 45 miles, swimming from Shakespeare Cliff in Dover to Cap Blanc Nez in France. She did the channel again around August 26, 1975, in 18 hours...
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Spitfire fighter on 6 May in an area 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of Cap Blanc-Nez, and lastly a Hawker Hurricane fighter on 21 May in vicinity of 20 kilometers...
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eventually straighten out, then start the same process all over again. Cap Blanc, Mauritania Cap-Vert, Senegal Cape Agulhas, South Africa, Africa's southernmost...
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frustrated. On the next attempt, she was forced ashore and destroyed west of Cap Blanc Nez by fire from British coastal artillery at Dover, on 21 January 1944...
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Team. In 1988 he swam solo across the English Channel from Dover to Cap Blanc-Nez(10 hours 30 min). In 1994 he broke the world record bungee jumping (6720...
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themselves ashore under the protection of the guns of a shore battery at Cap Blanc Nez near Sangatte. After about an hour's firing by the British warships...
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785181°N 80.152742°W / 25.785181; -80.152742 Dover Patrol Monument Cap Blanc-Nez, Sangatte/Escalles France 23 75 1922 50°55′29.42″N 1°42′35.57″E / 50...
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