What city can be found across the English channel from Dover?
Strait of Dover of severe ice in the English Channel. Strait of Dover The Strait of Dover or Dover Strait, historically known as the Dover Narrows ( - "Strait of Calais"); or "Straat van Dover"), is the strait at the narrowest part of the English Channel, marking the boundary between the Channel and North Sea, separating Great Britain from continental Europe. The shortest distance across the strait, , is from the South Foreland, northeast of Dover in the English county of Kent, to Cap Gris Nez, a cape near to Calais in the French département of Pas-de-Calais. Between these points lies the most
Dover Dover sole ("solea solea") is found all over European waters. M.R. James used the Dover landmark, the Lord Warden Hotel, as a location in his short ghost story "Casting the Runes", first published in More Ghost Stories in 1911. Matthew Arnold used the setting of Dover in his famous 19th-century poem, "Dover Beach." Dover Dover () is a major ferry port in Kent, South East England. It faces France across the Strait of Dover, the narrowest part of the English Channel, and lies south-east of Canterbury and east of Maidstone. The town is the administrative centre of the Dover District