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Lyme Bay

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Lyme Bay is an area of the English Channel situated in the southwest of England between Start Bay in the west and Portland in the east. [1]

57 relations: Axmouth, Beer, Devon, Branscombe, Budleigh Salterton, Burton Bradstock, Charlestown, Dorset, Charmouth, Coast, Coral reef, Dawlish Warren, Devon, Devon Wildlife Trust, Dinosaur, Dorset, E-boat, East Devon, English Channel, Eunicella verrucosa, Exercise Tiger, Exmouth, Eype, Fortuneswell, Geology, Gulf Stream, Isle of Portland, Islet, Jurassic, Jurassic Coast, List of places on the Jurassic Coast, Lyme Bay canoeing tragedy, Lyme Regis, Mary Anning, Normandy landings, Otterton, Paleontology, Prehistory, Reptile, RFA Lyme Bay (L3007), River Axe (Lyme Bay), River Bride, Dorset, River Brit, River Char, River Exe, River Otter, Devon, River Sid, Royal Fleet Auxiliary, Seaton, Devon, Sidmouth, Slapton, Devon, Start Bay, ..., Teignmouth, The Daily Telegraph, Underwater diving, United States Army, United States Navy, West Bay, Dorset, World Heritage site. Expand index (7 more) »

Axmouth

Axmouth is a village, civil parish and former manor in the East Devon district of Devon, England, near the mouth of the River Axe.

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Beer, Devon

Beer is a village and civil parish in the East Devon district of Devon, England.

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Branscombe

Branscombe is a village in the East Devon district of the English county of Devon.

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Budleigh Salterton

Budleigh Salterton is a small town on the coast in East Devon, England, south-east of Exeter.

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Burton Bradstock

Burton Bradstock is a village and civil parish in West Dorset, England, situated approximately southeast of Bridport and inland from the English Channel at Chesil Beach.

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Charlestown, Dorset

Charlestown is a suburb of Weymouth in Dorset, England, situated in the west of the town beside The Fleet, although it is in Chickerell parish (population 5,282 in 2001) and West Dorset district, rather than Weymouth and Portland borough.

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Charmouth

Charmouth is a village and civil parish at the mouth of the River Char in West Dorset, England.

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Coast

A coastline or a seashore is the area where land meets the sea or ocean, or a line that forms the boundary between the land and the ocean or a lake.

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Coral reef

Coral reefs are diverse underwater ecosystems held together by calcium carbonate structures secreted by corals.

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Dawlish Warren

Dawlish Warren is a small seaside resort near the town of Dawlish in Teignbridge on the south coast of Devon in England.

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Devon

Devon, also known as Devonshire, which was formerly its common and official name, is a county of England, reaching from the Bristol Channel in the north to the English Channel in the south.

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Devon Wildlife Trust

The Devon Wildlife Trust is a member of The Wildlife Trusts partnership covering the county of Devon, England.

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

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Dorset

Dorset (archaically: Dorsetshire) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast.

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E-boat

E-boat was the Western Allies' designation for the fast attack craft (German: Schnellboot, or S-Boot, meaning "fast boat") of the Kriegsmarine during World War II.

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East Devon

East Devon is a local government district in Devon, England.

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English Channel

The English Channel (la Manche, "The Sleeve"; Ärmelkanal, "Sleeve Channel"; Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; Mor Bretannek, "Sea of Brittany"), also called simply the Channel, is the body of water that separates southern England from northern France and links the southern part of the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.

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Eunicella verrucosa

Eunicella verrucosa, the broad sea fan, pink sea fan or warty gorgonian, is a species of colonial Gorgonian "soft coral" in the family Gorgoniidae.

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Exercise Tiger

Exercise Tiger, or Operation Tiger, was the code name for one in a series of large-scale rehearsals for the D-Day invasion of Normandy, which took place in April 1944 on Slapton Sands in Devon.

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Exmouth

Exmouth is a port town, civil parish and seaside resort, sited on the east bank of the mouth of the River Exe.

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Eype

Eype is a small village in southwest Dorset, England, situated in the West Dorset district about southwest of Bridport.

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Fortuneswell

Fortuneswell is a village in Underhill on the Isle of Portland, in Dorset, England.

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Geology

Geology (from the Ancient Greek γῆ, gē, i.e. "earth" and -λoγία, -logia, i.e. "study of, discourse") is an earth science concerned with the solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time.

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Gulf Stream

The Gulf Stream, together with its northern extension the North Atlantic Drift, is a warm and swift Atlantic ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico and stretches to the tip of Florida, and follows the eastern coastlines of the United States and Newfoundland before crossing the Atlantic Ocean.

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Isle of Portland

The Isle of Portland is a limestone tied island, long by wide, in the English Channel.

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Islet

An islet is a very small island.

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Jurassic

The Jurassic (from Jura Mountains) was a geologic period and system that spanned 56 million years from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period Mya.

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Jurassic Coast

The Jurassic Coast is a World Heritage Site on the English Channel coast of southern England.

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List of places on the Jurassic Coast

The following is a list of places on the Jurassic Coast in southern England, in East Devon and Dorset, from west to east.

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Lyme Bay canoeing tragedy

The Lyme Bay kayaking tragedy was an incident that led to the death of four teenagers on a sea kayaking trip in the Lyme Bay area on the south coast of England.

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Lyme Regis

Lyme Regis is a town in West Dorset, England, west of Dorchester and east of Exeter.

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Mary Anning

Mary Anning (21 May 1799 – 9 March 1847) was an English fossil collector, dealer, and paleontologist who became known around the world for important finds she made in Jurassic marine fossil beds in the cliffs along the English Channel at Lyme Regis in the county of Dorset in Southwest England.

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Normandy landings

The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II.

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Otterton

Otterton is a village and civil parish in East Devon, England.

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Paleontology

Paleontology or palaeontology is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene Epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).

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Prehistory

Human prehistory is the period between the use of the first stone tools 3.3 million years ago by hominins and the invention of writing systems.

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Reptile

Reptiles are tetrapod animals in the class Reptilia, comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct relatives.

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RFA Lyme Bay (L3007)

RFA Lyme Bay is a Bay-class auxiliary landing ship dock (LSD(A)) of the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA).

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River Axe (Lyme Bay)

The River Axe is a river in Dorset, Somerset and Devon, in the south-west of England.

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River Bride, Dorset

The River Bride is a river in Dorset, England, situated in the West Dorset administrative district between the towns of Dorchester and Bridport.

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River Brit

The River Brit is a river in west Dorset in south-west England, which rises just to the north of Beaminster.

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River Char

The River Char is a river in West Dorset.

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River Exe

The River Exe in England rises at Exe Head, near the village of Simonsbath, on Exmoor in Somerset, from the Bristol Channel coast, but flows more or less directly due south, so that most of its length lies in Devon.

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River Otter, Devon

The River Otter rises in the Blackdown Hills just inside the county of Somerset, England near Otterford, then flows south for some 32 km through East Devon to the English Channel at the western end of Lyme Bay, part of the Jurassic Coast, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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River Sid

The River Sid is a minor river in East Devon.

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Royal Fleet Auxiliary

The Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) is a civilian-manned fleet owned by the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence, whose purpose is to support the Royal Navy to maintain operations around the world.

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Seaton, Devon

Seaton is a large seaside town, fishing harbour and civil parish in East Devon on the south coast of England.

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Sidmouth

Sidmouth is a town situated on the English Channel coast in Devon, South West England, east-southeast of Exeter.

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Slapton, Devon

Slapton is a village and civil parish in the South Hams district of Devon, England.

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Start Bay

Start Bay is the bay in the English Channel in Devon, England between the River Dart's estuary and Start Point.

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Teignmouth

Teignmouth is a large seaside town, fishing port and civil parish in the English county of Devon, situated on the north bank of the estuary mouth of the River Teign about 14 miles south of Exeter.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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Underwater diving

Underwater diving, as a human activity, is the practice of descending below the water's surface to interact with the environment.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Navy

The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.

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West Bay, Dorset

West Bay, also known as Bridport Harbour, is a small harbour settlement and resort on the English Channel coast in Dorset, England, sited at the mouth of the River Brit approximately south of Bridport.

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World Heritage site

A World Heritage site is a landmark or area which is selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance, and is legally protected by international treaties.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_Bay

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