List of shoals and sandbanks in the southern North Sea

Shoals and sandbanks are characteristic underwater seabed features of the southern North Sea and the eastern English Channel.

[6][7][8] The table below is a list of the named sandbanks and shoals of the southern North Sea, the Dover Strait (Pas-de-Calais) and the eastern English Channel (La Manche).

[9][10][11] The geographical extent is eastwards from a line (00°14'E) extending south from Beachy Head England to Étretat France in the English Channel, through the Straits of Dover, then north through the southern North Sea to a line extending east from Berwick-upon-Tweed England (55°50’N) to Ringkobing Fjord Denmark.

[15] It includes the territorial waters and exclusive economic zones of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

A tabulated list of shoals and sandbanks in the southern North Sea, Dover Strait and English Channel.