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Spithead es una parte del Solent, el brazo de mar que separa la isla de Wight del resto de Inglaterra, en el condado de Hampshire, cerca de Portsmouth (Reino Unido). [1]
Spithead is an area of the Solent and a roadstead off Gilkicker Point in Hampshire, England. It is protected from all winds except those from the southeast. It receives its name from the Spit, a sandbank stretching south from the Hampshire shore for 5 km (3.1 mi).
Spithead, strait of the English Channel, forming an extensive, deep, and sheltered channel between the northeastern shore of the Isle of Wight and the mainland of England. The Spit Sand forms the western side of the channel leading into Portsmouth harbour.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Spithead es una parte del Solent, el brazo de mar que separa la isla de Wight del resto de Inglaterra, en el condado de Hampshire, cerca de Portsmouth. Protegida de los vientos, esta parte del Solent forma una rada de 22,5 km de largo por unos 6,5 km de ancho, que se utiliza a menudo para el anclaje de buques de la Marina Real británica.
Spithead es una parte del Solent, el brazo de mar que separa la isla de Wight del resto de Inglaterra, en el condado de Hampshire, cerca de Portsmouth. Protegida de los vientos, esta parte del Solent forma una rada de 22,5 km de largo por unos 6,5 km de ancho, que se utiliza a menudo para el anclaje de buques de la Marina Real británica.
"Spithead" published on by null. A well-known and historical stretch of water in the east Solent off the British naval base of Portsmouth. It is bounded on the north by the Spit Sand, on the east by the Horse and Dean Sand, on the south by the Sturbridge Shoal and the Motherbank, and on the west by the Ryde Middle Sand.
Geoffrey Bennett takes the reader on a visit to Spithead - the deep water channel that leads into Portsmouth Dockyard - which has been the scene of naval reviews by British monarchs since Henry VIII.
