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Goodwin Sands

American  
[good-win] / ˈgʊd wɪn /

noun

  1. a line of shoals at the N entrance to the Strait of Dover, off the SE coast of England. 10 miles (16 km) long.


Goodwin Sands British  
/ ˈɡʊdwɪn /

plural noun

  1. a dangerous stretch of shoals at the entrance to the Strait of Dover: separated from the E coast of Kent by the Downs roadstead

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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When conditions at sea improved on Monday experts working for the RAF Museum were able to hoist the aircraft's remains from the Channel, where it lay in an area known as Goodwin Sands.

From The Guardian Jun. 10, 2013

On Sunday, the museum's salvage team came within 40 minutes of raising the Dornier 17 bomber from its resting place on the Goodwin Sands, off the Kent coast.

From BBC Jun. 6, 2013

South Foreland Lighthouse was built in 1843 to guide ships through the dangerous offshore banks of the Goodwin Sands.

From BBC Aug. 28, 2012

A total of 1,700 Dorniers were built, but the plane discovered in Goodwin Sands is thought to be the last remaining one.

From BBC Apr. 8, 2011

Those who accept such palpable absurdities would doubtless easily believe that the "Tenterden steeple was the cause of the Goodwin Sands."

From The Discovery of America by the Northmen, 985-1015 by Slafter, Edmund F. (Edmund Farwell)

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