Southern Bight

The Southern Bight is part of the southern North Sea between the coasts of the Netherlands, Belgium and Great Britain. The northern boundary is the Dogger Bank. The lake is also called Southwest North Sea. The transition to the English Channel, the Strait of Dover.

Apart from the Deep Water Channel, an up to 60 meters deep depression that runs from Norfolk in the Strait of Dover, the whole area is marked less than 40 meters deep and undersea by numerous sandbanks. Important rivers that flow into the Southern Bight, are the Rhine, Meuse and Scheldt.

In the bay two tidal waves come together from the Atlantic: a massive wave, which runs down the British coast from the north, and a wave with much less mass that crosses with a large tidal range the English Channel. Both meet in the Southern Bight and form a Amphidromie off the coast of Norfolk. Within the bay runs in the western part of a flow in a south-westerly, the eastern one in a northeasterly direction, carrying the sediment and sand banks in the course of time with them.

The weather in the bay is strongly influenced by westerly winds.