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- Menai_Strait abstract "The Menai Strait (Welsh: Afon Menai, the "River Menai") is a narrow stretch of shallow tidal water about 25 km (16 mi) long, which separates the island of Anglesey from the mainland of Wales.The strait is bridged in two places - the main A5 road is carried over the strait by Thomas Telford's elegant iron suspension bridge, the first of its kind, opened in January 1826, and adjacent to this is Robert Stephenson's 1850 Britannia Tubular Bridge. Originally this carried rail traffic in two wrought-iron rectangular box spans, but after a disastrous fire in 1970, which left only the limestone pillars remaining, it was rebuilt as a steel box girder bridge, and now carries both rail and road traffic. Between the two bridge crossings there is a small island in the middle of the strait, Ynys Gorad Goch, on which are built a house and outbuildings and around which are the significant remains of fish traps, no longer used.The strait varies in width from 400 metres (1,300 ft) from Fort Belan to Abermenai Point to 1,100 metres (3,600 ft) from Traeth Gwyllt to Caernarfon Castle. It then narrows to about 500 metres (1,600 ft) in the middle reaches (Y Felinheli and Menai Bridge) and then it broadens again. At Bangor, Garth Pier, it is 900 metres (3,000 ft) wide. It then widens out, and the distance from Puffin Island to Penmaenmawr is about 7.5 kilometres (4.7 mi). The differential tides at the two ends of the strait cause very strong currents to flow in both directions through the strait at different times, creating dangerous conditions. One of the most dangerous areas of the strait is known as the Swellies (or Swillies – Welsh Pwll Ceris) between the two bridges. Here rocks near the surface cause over-falls and local whirlpools, which can be of considerable danger in themselves and cause small boats to founder on the rocks. This was the site of the loss of the training ship HMS Conway in 1953. Entering the strait at the Caernarfon end is also hazardous because of the frequently shifting sand banks that make up Caernarfon bar. On the mainland side at this point is Fort Belan, an 18th-century defensive fort built in the times of the American War of Independence.".
- Menai_Strait thumbnail Britannia_Bridge_and_Nelson_memorial_3.JPG?width=300.
- Menai_Strait wikiPageExternalLink webcam.php.en.
- Menai_Strait wikiPageExternalLink www.prosiectmenai.co.uk.
- Menai_Strait wikiPageID "380404".
- Menai_Strait wikiPageRevisionID "602028717".
- Menai_Strait hasPhotoCollection Menai_Strait.
- Menai_Strait subject Category:Irish_Sea.
- Menai_Strait subject Category:Menai_Strait.
- Menai_Strait subject Category:Straits_of_Anglesey.
- Menai_Strait subject Category:Straits_of_Gwynedd.
- Menai_Strait point "53.18055555555556 -4.233333333333333".
- Menai_Strait type BodyOfWater109225146.
- Menai_Strait type Channel109241247.
- Menai_Strait type PhysicalEntity100001930.
- Menai_Strait type Strait109446115.
- Menai_Strait type StraitsOfTheBritishIsles.
- Menai_Strait type Thing100002452.
- Menai_Strait type YagoGeoEntity.
- Menai_Strait type YagoPermanentlyLocatedEntity.
- Menai_Strait type Place.
- Menai_Strait type Wikidata:Q532.
- Menai_Strait type Place.
- Menai_Strait type Location.
- Menai_Strait type SpatialThing.
- Menai_Strait comment "The Menai Strait (Welsh: Afon Menai, the "River Menai") is a narrow stretch of shallow tidal water about 25 km (16 mi) long, which separates the island of Anglesey from the mainland of Wales.The strait is bridged in two places - the main A5 road is carried over the strait by Thomas Telford's elegant iron suspension bridge, the first of its kind, opened in January 1826, and adjacent to this is Robert Stephenson's 1850 Britannia Tubular Bridge.".
- Menai_Strait label "Estrecho de Menai".
- Menai_Strait label "Estreito de Menai".
- Menai_Strait label "Menai Straat".
- Menai_Strait label "Menai Strait".
- Menai_Strait label "Menai Strait".
- Menai_Strait label "Menai".
- Menai_Strait label "Menaistraße".
- Menai_Strait label "Stretto di Menai".
- Menai_Strait label "Менай".
- Menai_Strait label "メナイ海峡".
- Menai_Strait label "梅奈海峡".
- Menai_Strait sameAs Menaistraße.
- Menai_Strait sameAs Estrecho_de_Menai.
- Menai_Strait sameAs Menai_itsasartea.
- Menai_Strait sameAs Menai.
- Menai_Strait sameAs Stretto_di_Menai.
- Menai_Strait sameAs メナイ海峡.
- Menai_Strait sameAs Menai_Straat.
- Menai_Strait sameAs Menai_Strait.
- Menai_Strait sameAs Estreito_de_Menai.
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- Menai_Strait sameAs 2642753.
- Menai_Strait sameAs Q922298.
- Menai_Strait sameAs Q922298.
- Menai_Strait sameAs Menai_Strait.
- Menai_Strait lat "53.18055555555556".
- Menai_Strait long "-4.233333333333333".
- Menai_Strait wasDerivedFrom Menai_Strait?oldid=602028717.
- Menai_Strait depiction Britannia_Bridge_and_Nelson_memorial_3.JPG.
- Menai_Strait isPrimaryTopicOf Menai_Strait.