Renaming maritime areas and features ;-)

[veshengro]

Dover Strait...Avon Alley
Lands End...Money Point
Robin Hood's Bay...Costner Coast
Thames Estuary...Windmill Reach
Solent....Pound£and.

 

[BobnLesley]

Any relation to Henry the Navigator

But Henry didn't sail anywhere, he was the Ineos/Hugo Boss of his day

 

[Baddox]

“Cape Wrath” Headland of Emotional Difficulties

“Firth of Forth” The First Firth

“Caledonian Canal” Nessie’s pond

“Hebrides” He/SheBrides

“Forties” Fifty five to Sixties N

“East Coast” Forum for the Muddy part of the coast but only as far north as the wild Wash.

 

[mjcoon]

Yes, I can see that.

On the other hand, 'boating lake' conjures up for me n image of a small number of people relaxedly pottering about pleasantly aimlessly, and so many boats on the Solent seem to on an urgent mission to be somewhere other than where they are!

Yes 'boating lake' seems inseparable from "Come in number xxx, your time is up". I used to live within walking distance of The Serpentine and its sailing dinghies...

 

[Chiara’s slave]

In fact the USA has a far longer Gulf coastline than Mexico. A subject oddly close to us ATM, as in less than 100 metres. Most Americans seem to think it’s a joke, much like some of these other renamings. I’d like to rename Southampton Water ‘Oil Drum Creek’.

 

[Dellquay13]

Can we keep these two, well named for the overfalls just off St Anne’s Head

 

[Mark-1]

I think the Solent should be called "The Sound of Wight".

Although a little voice in me says it would be great to go Scottish and call it the "Kyle of Wight".

 

[jbweston]

Port Glasgow, home of Feguson Marine (major players in the Ferry Fiasco), to be Sturgeon's End.

 

[LittleSister]

In fact the USA has a far longer Gulf coastline than Mexico.

Far longer? About a third longer - USA circa 1,500 miles, Mexico circa 1,100 miles.

And Mexico's will be longer once it gets back the bits of Mexico the USA nicked a while back.

Personally, I think it should be renamed the Gulf of Cuba, just to wind up our American cousins.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Far longer? About a third longer - USA circa 1,500 miles, Mexico circa 1,100 miles.

And Mexico's will be longer once it gets back the bits of Mexico the USA nicked a while back.

Personally, I think it should be renamed the Gulf of Cuba, just to wind up our American cousins.

Depends how you measure the coast. Florida is as crinkly as Scotland almost, plus many islands. You could, if American, extract another 1000 miles.

 

[Daydream believer]

I think we need to look after our own interests.
The Channel - The British Channel

Definitely the English Channel. No way would I want to share it with the Welsh or the Scots.
If they ever go independant, they would want to take a bit with them if we called it British

 

[dunedin]

Depends how you measure the coast. Florida is as crinkly as Scotland almost, plus many islands. You could, if American, extract another 1000 miles.

Mathematically all coastlines are ultimately infinite in length, as the measurement accuracy improves.
But as Little assisted says perhaps to avoid that issue naming it the Sound (or Kyle) of Cuba would be an equitable solution?

 

[dunedin]

Definitely the English Channel. No way would I want to share it with the Welsh or the Scots.
If they ever go independant, they would want to take a bit with them if we called it British

But you need to share it with the French - so perhaps call it The Entente Cordial?

 

[newtothis]

Mathematically all coastlines are ultimately infinite in length, as the measurement accuracy improves.

There must be some point at which Zeno's Paradox conquers fractal theory.

 

[Daydream believer]

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[PabloPicasso]

Yes, I can see that.

On the other hand, 'boating lake' conjures up for me n image of a small number of people relaxedly pottering about pleasantly aimlessly, and so many boats on the Solent seem to on an urgent mission to be somewhere other thean where they are!

St Geoorges channel should be rhe straight of Wexford

The Irish sea could just as easily be the Welsh Sea

The north Atlantic could be the Balearic Ocean

 

[Daydream believer]

The Irish sea could just as easily be the Welsh Sea

Then someone will impose a 3 kt speed limit charge £5-00 to use it & give it a name that even the Welsh cannot pronounce . unless they have covid-19

 

[Roberto]

Very recent suggestions seem to be based upon historical evidence

 

[MADRIGAL]

No , many centuries between them , see The Brendan Voyage - Tim Severin

Great book, by the way.

 

[alan_d]

I think the Solent should be called "The Sound of Wight".

Although a little voice in me says it would be great to go Scottish and call it the "Kyle of Wight".

Sound would be the more usual Scots term for the stretch of water separating an island from the mainland (or another island). Examples include The Sounds of Mull, Iona, Sleat, Luing, Harris, Barra, Jura etc. etc. etc. Kyle woudn't really be right as it comes from the Gaelic for narrows.