Sheerness

51.440.76194444444444Koordinaten: 51 ° 26 ' N, 0 ° 46 ' E

Sheerness on Sea is an English town on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. It belongs to the administrative district Swale and has about 20,000 inhabitants. Since 1860 there is a rail link to the mainland via Queensborough. Important are the port facilities, are handled through the mainly cars and heavy industrial goods. The Olau Line operation until 1994 a ferry service with two ships between Sheerness and the Dutch Vlissingen.

Since 1974 until his death in February 1984, the German writer Uwe Johnson lived in Sheerness.

On 7 April 2005 was here on the beach of the Piano Man discovered.

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