Talk:Chesil Beach

Tombolo?
"the largest tombolo in the world"? At 29 km long, 200 metre wide? The Aupouri Peninsula is a considerably bigger tombolo than this, for one. Nurg 09:26, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC) ---

i disagree because my geography teacher said it was a tombolo ---

I refer to a response I gave on Talk:Isle of Portland :- Some people also describe Portland as a tombolo (like my old High School Geography teachers from a good few years ago!), however this is also incorrect, as Chesil Beach is the tombolo, not Portland. A tombolo is defined as a sand or shingle bar which connects an island to the mainland, so hence that is what Chesil Beach is, not Portland.

Somewhat confusingly, the feature is still more unusual than that, however, as Chesil Beach is not a true tombolo (which formed by wave refraction) but is more likely to be a barrier beach or a bar, formed by sea level rise, which just happened to join onto Portland at one end.

There is also some evidence to show that the land to the immediate east of Chesil Beach, upon which Portland Beach road is built, may have been formed by a second tombolo, making Portland still even more unusual. This information can be found on http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/portharb.htm, along with any other information to clarify this quite complex and interesting subject.

It is always annoying when tourist guides write about Portland, and use phrases like ...'almost an island'... or ...'explore the 'island' of Portland'... Those people should do some research! (Rossportland 20:44, 13 June 2006 (UTC))

For views on what the second tombolo looked like 100 years ago go to www.chesilbeach.org/pictures/postcards. Regrettably all trace of this tombolo has now been submerged beneath the railway line and the heliport. 212.183.134.130 (talk) 19:04, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Template problem
The template that was in use on this article, "Infobox UK feature", was having problems properly wrapping text when images were involved, (images stacked immediately under the infobox should display underneath the box with the text to the left from the top of the page, but the text wasn't being displayed until the infobox ended, causing lots of whitespace), so I replaced it with "Infobox UK place". I put the old template into a comment and left it at the top of the page, in case the problem gets fixed, in which case theold template can easily be restored. Ed Fitzgerald t / c 20:46, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Problem identified and fixed. Due to positioning of {coord} - different in the two templates. Twiceuponatime (talk) 14:11, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Wikiproject Dorset assessment
I have just assessed this article as being of 'Mid' importance to the Dorset WikiProject, although I considered rating it as 'High', due to Chesil Beach being a landscape feature which is known internationally. Any comments? PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 21:50, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

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