Goodwin Sands


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Goodwin Sands,

stretch of shoals and sandbars, c.10 mi (20 km) long, lying off the east coast of Kent, SE England. It forms a breakwater E of The Downs, a roadstead. Shipwrecks were formerly frequent on the Sands. The shifting sands do not allow the construction of lighthouses, but there are several lightships and numerous buoys. Traditionally, the Sands were once a fertile isle called Lomea, the property of Godwin, earl of Wessex; Lomea was submerged by a great storm in the late 11th cent.
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Principal battles: Lyme Bay (1643); Goodwin Sands (off Sandwich and Deal), Kentish Knock, and Dungeness headland (all 1652); Portland (England) (1653); Porto Farina (Ghar el Melh) (1655); Santa Cruz (1657).
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