North Channel
Sign in to savestrait in the United Kingdom between northeast Northern Ireland and the Scottish Kintyre peninsula
Key facts
- Type
- Strait
- Part of
- Irish Sea
- Primary inflows
- River Bann , River Foyle , River Clyde , water from Irish Sea
- Primary outflows
- North Atlantic Ocean
- Surface area
- 160,367 hectares (396,280 acres)
- Salinity
- 34–35 psu
- Frozen
- Never
- Trenches
- Beaufort's Dyke
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The North Channel (known in Irish and Scottish Gaelic as Sruth na Maoile, and in Scots as The Sheugh, 'the trench') is the strait between north-eastern Ireland and south-western Scotland. The Firth of Clyde merges with the channel, between the southern tip of the Kintyre peninsula and Corsewall Point on the Rhins of Galloway. Part of the Irish Sea, the channel begins north of the Isle of Man and runs north-west into the Atlantic Ocean. Within the channel is Beaufort's Dyke, the deepest part of which is 312 metres (1,024 ft).
Geography