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Fair Isle Channel

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 25, 2024
Entity authorityQ60790793 ↗
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The Fair Isle Channel, also known as the Fair Isle Gap, is a body of water in northeast Scotland in the North Sea separating the Orkney Islands from the Shetland Islands. It is so named because of the presence of the Fair Isle, one of the Shetland Islands, which is located near its center.

The Fair Isle Channel is believed to be one of the bodies of water used by the Spanish Armada in 1588 during its attempt to return to Spain following the Battle of Gravelines. Several of the Armada's ships became stragglers once this channel was past, and ended up being lost on the shores of Ireland in the following weeks.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1588—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Fair, Isle and Channel providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 25, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q60790793. Authority coordinates are 59.605, -1.752. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1588.

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This entry incorporates text from “Fair Isle Channel” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.