Talk:Menai Strait

This article is due for a serious makeover. There's a whole lot of research and citations to be done. It may be interesting to organize part of the article geographically, according to each section of the strait. Also needs to list all the famous wrecks that have occured here, as it is a hazardous short-cut to Liverpool Bay for going around Anglesey. Once we have enough material, then it will be possible to attack those intro paragraphs properly. Most similar bodies of water are Jack_Sound and Sound of Mull (which doesn't even have a page yet!). A map and aerial photo would also be good for this article. Goatchurch 12:00, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

This is outrageous! All the other languages appear to have better versions of this article. And the spanish one says the place is radioactive.Goatchurch 12:12, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

I have doubts about the claim that currents are due to the phase difference between the two entrances. There should be plenty of modern PR papers that cover this, starting with the definitive work of GI Taylor about the Irish Sea tide phase. (He also has a famous mistake in this paper, over estimating PE by 2.) Since the open water is more than 20m the N/S phase diff can be no more than 1hr. Surely there must be a study using gauge data from the two entrances of the strait.27.33.245.64 (talk) 02:31, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

when updating....
Being over 50, and therefore not versed in metric, it'd be most appreciated if the revised version could possibly also include imperial measures as well. Many thanks. Songhouse (talk) 20:04, 8 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Being over 60, I have fixed it !  Velela  Velela Talk 18:46, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

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built in the times of the American War of Independence (1775-1783)
What relevance has the Menai Strait in American historical geopolitics? Wiki users must be credited with knowing when to locate the 18th Century in time, without having to allude to the Legendary Period in American myth-making. Nuttyskin (talk) 10:55, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

It is relevant because Fort Belan was built in response to worries of raids on the Strait during that war, both from privateers operating in the Irish Sea, and military actions by the Americans, like John Paul Jones' raid on Whitehaven, Cumbria, England. Warrenkovach (talk) 05:38, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

Would it possibly make more sense to add that explanation? Mr anonymous username (talk) 20:48, 4 September 2021 (UTC)