The Thames Estuary | water

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The Thames Estuary is where the River Thames meets the waters of the North Sea. It is not easy to define the limits of the estuary , although physically the head of ‘’Sea Reach‘’, near Canvey Island on the Essex shore is probably the western boundary. The eastern boundary, as suggested in a Hydrological Survey of 1882-9, is a line drawn from North Foreland in Kent via the Kentish Knock lighthouse to Harwich in Essex.. It is to here that the typical estuarine sandbanks extend . The estuary has the world's second largest tidal movement, where the water can rise by 4 metres moving at a speed of 8 miles per hour.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Estuary
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Coordinates:   51°29'29"N   0°33'47"E

Comments

  • This needs extending in line with the Wikipedia article. It's much too far West.
  • Is Southend Pier in the estuary or not?
  • " It is not easy to define the limits of the estuary" - Very true, and for this reason it should not be mapped.