Talk:Strait of Dover

Naming

Shouldn't this be the Dover Strait and not Strait of Dover Frelke 11:24, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Possibly - which is most common? Refs from within WP tend toward "Strait of Dover" it seems, the redir is little-used. Stan 13:09, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

UK Coastguard calls it Dover Strait. I have just added an External Links section with an appropriate link. As an ex-mariner, I don't find Strait(s) of .. as natural as Dover Strait(s). My gut instinct is that mariners use the latter and landlubbers the former. Google seems to confirm that.

I would always side with the mariners <g> Frelke 15:45, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Good enough for me. Stan 21:38, 18 September 2005 (UTC)l

Well, I was born in Dover (grew up in Deal) and we always used both Dover Straits and Straits of Dover, if that helps. Wavy (talk) 12:58, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

Good, so why is the article named call the waters "Strait of Dover", not "Straits of Dover"? Does anyone mind if I change it? Howard Alexander (talk) 11:49, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Added its historical name: Dover Narrows, indeed, the article itself defines the Dover Strait as the "narrowest" bit of the Engflish channel, also, "narrows" was once the everyday name for a "strait" up and down the whole of Britain - note one of the Dutch translations: Nauw van Calais — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.215.210.155 (talk) 08:15, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

Sidebar

Shouldn't it say "Min. Width"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.159.80.153 (talk) 14:47, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

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