La Coupée, the causeway bridging the island of Great Sark to Little Sark, Channel Islands, UK.
La Coupée is an isthmus joining Great Sark and Little Sark in the Channel Islands at 49°′N 2°′W. The land on both sides of this causeway has been eroded away by the sea, and all that now connects Little Sark to the rest of the island is a narrow ridge a mere three metres (nine feet) wide and 90 metres (300 ft) in length, with a drop of close to 80 metres (260 ft) on either side. Little Sark is roughly triangular in shape, some two-thirds of a mile/one kilometre in width in the south and a mile/one and a half kilometres in length from north to south. It is joined to the larger part of the island, Great Sark by a narrow isthmus known as La Coupée, a high ridge 80 metres (262 ft) above the sea which is only some ten feet/three metres in width. This is gradually being eroded and Little Sark will eventually become an island (a similar process is likely to have occurred with Brecqhou close to Sark's west coast).[1]
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