Cap Blanc-Nez

Coordinates: 50°55′30″N 1°42′34″E / 50.92500°N 1.70944°E / 50.92500; 1.70944
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Cap Blanc Nez on a summer day.

Cap Blanc-Nez (French pronunciation:

U-boats during World War I
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Cap Blanc-Nez was a vital measuring point for the eighteenth-century

Royal Greenwich Observatory. Sightings were made across the English Channel to Dover Castle and Fairlight Windmill on the South Downs. This Anglo-French Survey was led in England by General William Roy
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Some miles away to the southwest of Cap Blanc-Nez is the Cap Gris-Nez.

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50°55′30″N 1°42′34″E / 50.92500°N 1.70944°E / 50.92500; 1.70944