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Smiths Knoll is a British southern North Sea sandbank near 52°52'N, 02°13'E, measuring about 28 km by 1 km and containing 390 million cubic metres.
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Where exactly is Smiths Knoll located?
Smiths Knoll is a sandbank in the British southern North Sea, centered near coordinates 52°52'N, 02°13'E. It sits among the shallow banks that characterize that part of the North Sea off the English coast.
How big is Smiths Knoll?
It measures roughly 28 km long by about 1 km wide. Surveys of the bank estimate it contains around 390 million cubic metres of sand.
Is Smiths Knoll an island or a shoal?
It's a fully submerged sandbank (shoal), not land that breaks the surface. Shipping in the southern North Sea has to account for shallow banks like it when plotting routes.
Why are sandbanks like Smiths Knoll surveyed?
Banks such as Smiths Knoll are mapped for navigational safety and assessed as potential sources of marine sand and gravel aggregates. Shallow sandbanks are also recognized as protected habitat features in UK marine conservation because of the unique life they support.
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