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Little Atherfield is a ___MASK47___ on the Isle of Wight . It is near the coast in the Back of the Wight . The Isle of Wight is situated off the south coast of ___MASK87___ . A ___MASK21___ is an area of open chalk hills . This term is especially used to describe the chalk countryside in southern ___MASK87___ . Areas of ___MASK21___ are often referred to as Downs , deriving from a Celtic word for " hills ". Borders are geographic boundaries of political entities or legal jurisdictions , such as governments , sovereign states , federated states , and other subnational entities . Some borders  such as a ___MASK37___ ' s internal administrative ___MASK32___ , or inter - ___MASK37___ borders within the Schengen Area  are often open and completely unguarded . Other borders are partially or fully controlled , and may be crossed legally only at designated ___MASK32___ checkpoints and ___MASK32___ zones may be controlled . Mostly contentious , borders may even foster the setting up of buffer zones . A difference has also been established in academic ___MASK36___ between ___MASK32___ and frontier , the latter denoting a ___MASK37___ of mind rather than ___MASK37___ boundaries . Continental Europe , also referred to as mainland Europe , or , by Europeans , simply the ___MASK78___ , is the continuous ___MASK78___ of Europe , excluding surrounding islands . The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland , commonly known as the United Kingdom ( UK ) or Britain , is a sovereign ___MASK74___ in western Europe . ___MASK92___ off the north - western coast of the European mainland , it includes the ___MASK56___ of Great Britain ( the name of which is also loosely applied to the whole ___MASK74___ ), the north - eastern part of the ___MASK56___ of Ireland , and many smaller islands . Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another sovereign statethe ___MASK62___ of Ireland . Apart from this land border , the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean , with the North ___MASK94___ to its east , the English Channel to its south and the Celtic ___MASK94___ to its south - south - west , giving it the 12th - longest coastline in the world . The Irish ___MASK94___ lies between Great Britain and Ireland . With an area of , the UK is the 78th - largest sovereign state in the world and the 11th - largest in Europe . It is also the 21st - most populous ___MASK74___ , with an estimated 65 . 1 million inhabitants . Together , this makes it the fourth most densely populated ___MASK74___ in the European Union . Cowleaze Chine is a geological feature on the south west ___MASK59___ of the Isle of Wight , ___MASK87___ . It lies to the west of the village of Little Atherfield . This chine is just to the west of the larger Shepherd ' s Chine . It starts just off the side of the A3055 Military Road and runs south west for about 250m to reach the beach at Brighstone ___MASK50___ just to the north of Atherfield Point . This chine ' s vegetation is a mixture of hardy bushes , scrub and rough grasses . At the widest part of the chine erosion and layers of grey sediment are visible . The Chine drains water from the mainly flat agricultural land to its north . The resulting stream reaches the ___MASK59___ at the top of a small cliff and falls the remaining 5m to the beach below where it soaks into the pebbles and disappears . Originally the Chine would have been fed by the flow of water that now supplies neighbouring Shepherd ' s Chine . To the east of Cowleaze Chine is the Atherfield ___MASK50___ Holiday Centre consisting of a campsite and chalets . The Isle of Wight Coastal Path crosses Cowleaze Chine near the campsite . Hampshire (; abbreviated Hants , archaically known as the ___MASK10___ of Southampton ) is a ___MASK10___ on the southern coast of ___MASK87___ in the United Kingdom . The ___MASK73___ of Hampshire is Winchester , the former capital city of ___MASK87___ . Hampshire is the most populous ceremonial ___MASK10___ in the United Kingdom ( excluding the metropolitan counties ) with almost half of the ___MASK10___ ' s population living within the South Hampshire conurbation which includes the cities of Southampton and Portsmouth . The larger South Hampshire metropolitan area has a population of 1 , 547 , 000 . Hampshire is notable for housing the birthplaces of the Royal Navy , British Army , and Royal Air Force . It is bordered by Dorset to the west , Wiltshire to the north - west , Berkshire to the north , Surrey to the north - east , and West Sussex to the east . The southern boundary is the coastline of the English Channel and the Solent , facing the Isle of Wight . Scotland ( Scots : ) is a ___MASK74___ that is ___MASK66___ of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the ___MASK56___ of Great Britain . It shares a border with ___MASK87___ to the south , and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean , with the North ___MASK94___ to the east and the North Channel and Irish ___MASK94___ to the south - west . In addition to the mainland , the ___MASK74___ is made up of more than 790 islands , including the Northern Isles and the Hebrides . The Irish ___MASK94___ (, , , Ulster - Scots : " Airish ___MASK94___ "), separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain . It is connected to the Celtic ___MASK94___ in the south by St George ' s Channel , and to the Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland in the north by the North Channel . Anglesey is the largest island within the Irish ___MASK94___ , followed by the Isle of Man . The ___MASK94___ is occasionally , but rarely , referred to as the Manx ___MASK94___ . The Isle of Wight is a ___MASK10___ and the largest and second - most populous ___MASK56___ in ___MASK87___ . It is located in the English Channel , about 4 miles ( 6 km ) off the coast of Hampshire , separated by the Solent . The ___MASK56___ has resorts that have been ___MASK51___ destinations since Victorian times , and is known for its mild climate , coastal scenery , and verdant landscape of fields , downland and chines . Wales is a ___MASK74___ that is ___MASK66___ of the United Kingdom and the ___MASK56___ of Great Britain . It is bordered by ___MASK87___ to the east , the Irish ___MASK94___ to the north and west , and the Bristol Channel to the south . It had a population in 2011 of 3 , 063 , 456 and has a total area of . Wales has over of coastline and is largely mountainous , with its higher peaks in the north and central areas , including Snowdon , its highest summit . The ___MASK74___ lies within the north temperate zone and has a changeable , maritime climate . The North ___MASK94___ is a marginal ___MASK94___ of the Atlantic Ocean located between Great Britain , Scandinavia , Germany , the Netherlands , Belgium , and France . An epeiric ( or " shelf ") ___MASK94___ on the European continental shelf , it connects to the ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian ___MASK94___ in the north . It is more than long and wide , with an area of around . A chine is a steep - sided river ___MASK53___ where the river flows to the sea through , typically , soft eroding coastal cliffs of sandstone or clays . The word is still in use in central Southern England  notably in East Devon , Dorset , Hampshire and the Isle of Wight  to describe such topographical features . However , ' bunny ' is also used to describe a chine in Hampshire . Great Britain , also known as Britain , is a large ___MASK56___ in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe . With an area of , Great Britain is the largest European ___MASK56___ and the ninth - largest in the world . In 2011 the ___MASK56___ had a population of about 61 million people , making it the world ' s third - most populous ___MASK56___ after Java in Indonesia and Honshu in Japan . The ___MASK56___ of Ireland is situated to the west of it , and together these islands , along with over ___MASK60___ , 000 smaller surrounding islands , comprise the British Isles archipelago . ___MASK87___ is a country that is part of the United Kingdom . It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west . The Irish ___MASK94___ lies northwest of ___MASK87___ and the Celtic ___MASK94___ lies to the southwest . ___MASK87___ is separated from continental Europe by the North ___MASK94___ to the east and the English Channel to the south . The country covers five - eighths of the island of Great Britain ( which lies in the North Atlantic ) in its centre and south ; and includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly , and the Isle of Wight . A ___MASK74___ is a region that is identified as a distinct national entity in political ___MASK91___ . A ___MASK74___ may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state , as a non - sovereign or formerly sovereign political division , or a geographic region associated with sets of previously independent or differently associated people with distinct political characteristics . Regardless of the physical ___MASK91___ , in the modern internationally accepted legal definition as defined by the League of Nations in 1937 and reaffirmed by the United Nations in 1945 , a resident of a ___MASK74___ is subject to the independent exercise of legal jurisdiction . A shire is a traditional ___MASK15___ for a division of land , found in the United Kingdom and Australia . It was first used in Wessex from the beginning of Anglo - Saxon ___MASK11___ , and spread to most of the rest of England in the tenth century . The Solent is the ___MASK34___ that separates the Isle of Wight from the mainland of ___MASK87___ . It is about 20 miles long and varies in width between two and a half and ___MASK19___ miles , although the shingle Hurst Spit which projects one and a half miles into the Solent narrows the ___MASK94___ crossing between Hurst Castle and Colwell ___MASK50___ to just over a mile . The Celtic ___MASK94___ (; ) is the area of the Atlantic Ocean off the south coast of Ireland bounded to the east by Saint George ' s Channel ; other limits include the Bristol Channel , the English Channel , and the ___MASK50___ of Biscay , as well as adjacent portions of Wales , Cornwall , Devon , and Brittany . The southern and western boundaries are delimited by the continental shelf , which drops away sharply . The Isles of Scilly are an archipelago of small islands in the sea . The Isles of Scilly ( or "") are an ___MASK58___ off the south western tip of the Cornish peninsula of Great Britain . It is the southernmost ___MASK5___ in England and the United Kingdom , as well as the most westerly in England . The English ___MASK35___ (" the Sleeve " [ hence ] " ___MASK94___ of Brittany " " British ___MASK94___ "), also called simply the ___MASK35___ , is the body of water that separates southern England from northern France , and joins the southern part of the North ___MASK94___ to the rest of the Atlantic Ocean .