Really must read the question more carefully - the key word here is circle, and not continent.

Hi all the 11,400 years I mentioned was plus or minus 6 months as it probably started during the summer!
regards
Roy

Come for the model boats, stay for the history!🤗

(the Scots saw the Newfies and hightailed it over to the uk!🤣)

Hi as far as The Channel question goes it has only been there for 11,400 years. The Island of GB and Ireland was joined onto the continent back then by Doggerland.

At the end of the last Ice age around the N. American Great Lakes but a much latger area, was an ice wall of dammed up melt water which as we all got warmer was released and this caused The Flood mentioned in the Bible.

This inundation of water raised the sea levels and created the North Sea and the Channel also creating The British Isles, and almost certainly broke the land or wall from Gibralter to Africa and created the Mediteranean Sea. That is / was a lot of water!

Fishing boats now fish over The Dogger Bank in the North Sea. Artifacts from the people that lived there are frequently dredged up. It was not necessarily sudden as the bible mentions that Noah had enough time to build his Ark.

To follow on the subduction thread Scotland arrived from the Newfoundland area quite a long while before. There is an interesting video on the San Andreas Fault and the way Alcatras Island was formed, on You Tube.

'Nuff history for today,
Roy

Thanks to whoever earlier in the thread I got it right! Otherwise I would not have even guessed it right.
Roy

If you are French it's La Manche and if you are a Roman it is Oceanus Britanicus....

I humbly withdraw my objection. That said, the history the the Channel's name is interesting. Now if British Sea had been a choice, I'd have gone for that.😊

Not quite right TD,
Check out the map of that area and you'll find that the southern end of the North Sea lies between England and the Belgian and Dutch coasts.
English Channel is the correct answer.
Speaking as one who was born on the UK channel coast, Folkestone in Kent S.E. England directly opposite Calais and Boulogne in France😉
If anything The Atlantic Ocean would be more correct than The North Sea.
Cheers, Doug (Man of Kent)

https://www.google.com/maps/place/English+Channel/@50.2818479,-0.989497,8.46z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x47ddb401943e13a9:0x2a0af13ef63531e0!8m2!3d50.134664!4d-0.357056!16zL20vMDJqN2s?hl=en&entry=ttu

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=man+of+kent+or+kentish+man#vhid=eDrckLKYyPLfwM&vssid=l

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Channel

Interesting question today. While I answered it "correctly", the answer is wrong. As stated in the answer, the English Channel connects the southern part of the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean. Therefore, the correct answer to the question should be, The North Sea. Which happened to be my first choice....😁

Yessir, Stan Rogers and 22 others lost their lives in fire aboard an Air Canada flight that emergency landed in Cincinnati. 😕

Doug,

Stan Rogers death

Air Canada flight 797 fire on board, on the ground, Jun 2 1983, Greater Cincinnati Airport, Age 33

Born in Binbrook, Ontario but spent a lot of time in Nova Scotia

Hence his songs BLUENOSE, and NORTHWEST PASSAGE

I think it was Hudson had a river and a bay named after him. He carried out his voyages of exploration during the reign of Queen Elizibeth 1st and vanished in St Jame's Bay, Canada in the early 1600s...

Hi Ross,
Didn't poor Stan die in a plane crash just as his career was taking off?
Seem to recall a 'Mayday' episode about the crash.
Cheers, Doug😎

Hi Roy, Mon plaisir😁
Maybe if you'd been watching NAT GEO or History Channel instead of Upstairs Downstairs you'd have known😉😎

I believe survivors of the Franklin expedition resorted to canibalism, to no avail as I don't think any of them survived...

Hi Doug, cheers, nice to pick up something new. I do not know why some do not approve of the questions?

Roy

Hi Roy,
Cook didn't always like it hot!
He was also in Antarctic waters, second expedition I believe.
On his third expedition Cook also tried to find a NW passage.
After dropping some guy off on Tahiti he headed north to the NW Pacific, discovering Hawaii on the way.
On the trip back he popped into Hawaii again (which the crew found most exhilarating 😮🙈🙊) where he unfortunately got bumped off in a dispute over a rowing boat.
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On a hot streak...I hope I don't jinx myself now. 😜

Canadian here. Not permitted to miss this question. For Stan Rogers Tribute to Franklin



For Stan Rogers tribute to Franklin

Livingstone and Cook we know liked it warmer! Mr. Hudson was in Upstairs Downstairs so that leaves Mr. Franklin.
Roy

There's an excellent docu about his expedition, from about 10 years ago when his ships, Erebus and Terror were discovered. Crews died from lead poisoning apparently.
Lead solder was used to seal their 'new fangled' food cans!
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Back on a win 😀

Phil

I find a wet mop for 2 days helps with that problem😉

Lucky for me the name came from that place wright at the back of my brain some slight thought , surprised there is a lot of dust and crap back there🤣🤣.
Phil👍

Just shows, I should read the question properly before I answer. It says Space Shuttle and not Station. 😂😂

She was the only one I had heard of. Lucky guess.
Roy

Couldn't remember, guessed wrong, hey ho!!

Another National Geographic / History Channel docu question😊
BTW Peggy Whitson was the first woman to command the ISS

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If they had put San Francisco I would have gone with that, but opted for LA.

I thought it must be on the west coast as it has such a big trade deficit with China etc.
Roy

I thought either LA or Houston, I picked LA….lucky guess on my part

Hi Doug a bit of history. King Phillip 2 of Spain was married to our own Queen Mary for 5 years before her death 30 years before the Spanish Armada in 1588.
She died of the Flu.

So probably some 'family issues' there!
Roy

If I had got this question wrong the sub boys in my club would have had me keel-hauled🤣

Thanks Nick,👍
Now I understand why Phillip was so peeved with us.
Francis burned his toast!😠
😁😂🤣

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Better brush up on my history 🤔

Ah yes, just a year after Drake "singed the King of Spain's beard"...

Luck was a lady for me last night. 😉

Hi I jumped for wrong answer I thought it was 1588 but some reason did not go for it 😔
Phil

1588 and all that! An interesting set of dates.

1601 English Poor Laws enacted where the government raised taxes to feed the unemployed and 'Helpless'.
1620 Mayflower arrived.
1492 Columbus arrived.
1588 the very reluctant Duke de Medina y Sidonia set sail for religious reasons to 'save' the English!.

Nice one
Roy

Honesty Nick, I like “Kismet Hardy.” It seems fitting to me. 😉

It was the Victorians that floated the Kismet idea. It's Turkish aparently. Perhaps Victorian values didn't sit right with two men kissing, or summat...

Although in reading the etymology of the word “kismet,” it was not commonly used in the English language until around the 1830’s. 🤔

I have read that as well Nick. He also had the wear with all to tell Hardy that he was shot through the spine and that he was done for.

There is a school of thought says that his last words were "kismet Hardy" ie, "fate Hardy"...

The surgeon testified that his last words were, “Thank God I have done my duty.” “Kiss Me Hardy,” was just prior to Nelson being brought below deck to surgery.

Nelson’s last words supposed to have been -

“Kiss me Hardy”

Boatshed
Even foreigners know thé battle. It was not a réal question to thé quiz

Nelson and the battle of Trafalgar was a no nonsense straight answer. Didn't even have to think about it. We had so many fishing holidays up in Norfolk, there is a sign as you enter Norfolk on the A11 saying that you are now entering Nelson Country. Dad always used to tell us that he died in that Battle.

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Lucky guess for me today 👍