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Wales is located on a peninsula in
central-west Great Britain. Its area, the size of Wales, is about
20,779 km² (8,023 square miles - about the same size as
Massachusetts, Slovenia or El Salvador and about a quarter of the
size of Scotland). It is about 274 km (170 miles) north-south and 97
km (60 miles) east-west. Wales is bordered by England to the east
and by sea in the other three directions: the Môr Hafren (Bristol
Channel) to the south, St. George's Channel to the west, and the
Irish Sea to the north. Altogether, Wales has over 1,200 km (750
miles) of coastline. There are several islands off the Welsh
mainland, the largest being Ynys Môn (Anglesey) in the northwest.
The main population and industrial areas are in South Wales,
consisting of the cities of Cardiff (Caerdydd), Swansea (Abertawe)
and Newport (Casnewydd) and surrounding areas, with another
significant population in the north-east around Wrexham (Wrecsam).
The summit of Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa), Gwynedd, highest mountain in
WalesMuch of Wales' diverse landscape is mountainous, particularly
in the north and central regions. The mountains were shaped during
the last ice age, the Devensian glaciation. The highest mountains in
Wales are in Snowdonia (Eryri), and include Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa),
which, at 1085 m (3,560 ft) is the highest peak in Wales. The 14 (or
possibly 15) Welsh mountains over 3,000 feet (914 m) high are known
collectively as the Welsh 3000s. The Brecon Beacons (Bannau
Brycheiniog) are in the south (highest point Pen-y-Fan 886 m (2,907
ft)), and are joined by the Cambrian Mountains in Mid Wales, the
latter name being given to the earliest geological period of the
Paleozoic era, the Cambrian.
In the mid 19th century, two prominent geologists, Roderick
Murchison and Adam Sedgwick, used their studies of the geology of
Wales to establish certain principles of stratigraphy and
palaeontology. After much dispute, the next two periods of the
Paleozoic era, the Ordovician and Silurian, were named after ancient
Celtic tribes from this area. The older rocks underlying the
Cambrian rocks were referred to as Pre-cambrian.
Wales has three National Parks: Snowdonia, Brecon Beacons and
Pembrokeshire Coast. It also has four Areas of Outstanding Natural
Beauty. These areas include Anglesey, the Clwydian Range, the Gower
peninsula and the Wye Valley. The Gower peninsula was the first area
in the whole of the United Kingdom to be designated as an Area of
Outstanding Natural Beauty, in 1956.
Tor Bay and Three Cliffs Bay, Gower (Gŵyr), Glamorgan.Along with its
Celtic cousins in Cornwall, the coastline of South and West Wales
has more miles of Heritage Coast than anywhere else. The coastline
of the Glamorgan Heritage Coast, the Gower peninsula, Pembrokeshire,
Carmarthenshire, and Ceredigion is particularly wild and impressive.
Gower, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Cardigan Bay all have
clean blue water, white sand beaches and impressive marine life.
Despite this scenic splendour the coast of Wales has a dark side;
the south and west coasts of Wales, along with the Irish and Cornish
coasts, are frequently blasted by huge Atlantic westerlies/south
westerlies that, over the years, have sunk and wrecked many vessels.
On the night of October 25, 1859, 114 ships were destroyed off the
coast of Wales when a hurricane blew in from the Atlantic; Cornwall
and Ireland also had a huge number of fatalities on its coastline
from shipwrecks that night. Wales has the somewhat unenviable
reputation, along with Cornwall, Ireland and Brittany, of having per
square mile, some of the highest shipwreck rates in Europe.[citation
needed] The shipwreck situation was particularly bad during the
industrial era when ships bound for Cardiff got caught up in
Atlantic gales and were decimated by "the cruel sea".
Like Cornwall, Brittany and Ireland, the clean, clear waters of
South-west Wales of Gower, Pembrokeshire and Cardigan Bay attract
marine visitors including basking sharks, Atlantic grey seals,
leatherback turtles, dolphins, porpoises, jellyfish, crabs and
lobsters. Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion in particular are recognised
as an area of international importance for Bottlenose dolphins, and
New Quay in the middle of Cardigan Bay has the only summer residence
of bottle nosed dolphins in the whole of the U.K.
The modern border between Wales and England was largely defined in
the 16th century, based on medieval feudal boundaries. The boundary
line (which very roughly follows Offa's Dyke up to 40 miles (64 km)
of the northern coast) separates Knighton from its railway station,
virtually cuts off Church Stoke from the rest of Wales, and slices
straight through the village of Llanymynech (where a pub actually
straddles the line).
The Seven Wonders of Wales is a list in doggerel verse of seven
geographic and cultural landmarks in Wales probably composed in the
late 18th century under the influence of tourism from England. All
the "wonders" are in north Wales: Snowdon (the highest mountain),
the Gresford bells (the peal of bells in the medieval church of All
Saints at Gresford), the Llangollen bridge (built in 1347 over the
River Dee, Afon Dyfrdwy), St Winefride's Well (a pilgrimage site at
Holywell, Treffynnon) in Flintshire), the Wrexham (Wrecsam) steeple
(16th century tower of St. Giles Church in Wrexham), the Overton Yew
trees (ancient yew trees in the churchyard of St. Mary's at
Overton-on-Dee) and Pistyll Rhaeadr (Wales' tallest waterfall, at
240 ft (73 m)).
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