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Strangford Lough, the Glossary

Strangford Lough is a large sea lough or inlet in County Down, in the east of Northern Ireland.^[1]

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Important Bird Areas of Northern Ireland
Landforms of County Down
Marine reserves of Northern Ireland
Newtownards
Portaferry
Ramsar sites in Northern Ireland
Sea loughs of Northern Ireland
Special Areas of Conservation in County Down
Special Protection Areas in Northern Ireland

Algae

Algae (alga) are any of a large and diverse group of photosynthetic, eukaryotic organisms.

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Animal

Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Ards and North Down Borough Council

Ards and North Down Borough Council is a local authority in Northern Ireland that was established on 1 April 2015.

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Ards Peninsula

The Ards Peninsula is a peninsula in County Down, Northern Ireland, on the north-east coast of Ireland. Strangford Lough and Ards Peninsula are Landforms of County Down, Newtownards and Portaferry.

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Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB;, AHNE) is one of 46 areas of countryside in England, Wales, or Northern Ireland that has been designated for conservation due to its significant landscape value.

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Ascophyllum

Ascophyllum nodosum is a large, common cold water seaweed or brown alga (Phaeophyceae) in the family Fucaceae.

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Basking shark

The basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) is the second-largest living shark and fish, after the whale shark.

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Belfast

Belfast (from Béal Feirste) is the capital city and principal port of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan and connected to the open sea through Belfast Lough and the North Channel.

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Bird

Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Bird migration

Bird migration is a seasonal movement of birds between breeding and wintering grounds that occurs twice a year.

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Brant (goose)

The brant or brent goose (Branta bernicla) is a small goose of the genus Branta.

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British Isles

The British Isles are a group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-western coast of continental Europe, consisting of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Northern Isles (Orkney and Shetland), and over six thousand smaller islands.

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Calcareous

Calcareous is an adjective meaning "mostly or partly composed of calcium carbonate", in other words, containing lime or being chalky.

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Castle Espie

Castle Espie is a wetland reserve managed by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) on the banks of Strangford Lough, three miles south of Comber, County Down, Northern Ireland, in the townland of the same name. Strangford Lough and Castle Espie are special Protection Areas in Northern Ireland.

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Chlorochytrium

Chlorochytrium is a genus of green algae, in the family Chlorochytriaceae.

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Comber

Comber (locally) is a town in County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Coralline algae

Coralline algae are red algae in the order Corallinales.

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County Down

County Down is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland.

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Delamont Country Park

Delamont Country Park is located on the shores of Strangford Lough in County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Didemnum vexillum

Didemnum vexillum is a species of colonial tunicate in the family Didemnidae.

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Environmental degradation

Environmental degradation is the deterioration of the environment through depletion of resources such as quality of air, water and soil; the destruction of ecosystems; habitat destruction; the extinction of wildlife; and pollution.

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Evopod

Evopod is a unique tidal energy device being developed by a UK-based company Oceanflow Energy Ltd for generating electricity from tidal streams and ocean currents.

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Fjord

In physical geography, a fjord or fiord is a long, narrow sea inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier.

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Friedrich Traugott Kützing

Friedrich Traugott Kützing (8 December 1807 in Ritteburg – 9 September 1893) was a German pharmacist, botanist and phycologist.

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Fucus cottonii

Fucus cottonii, also known as moss wrack, is a species of brown algae that grows in low energy salt-marsh environments on Atlantic and Pacific coasts.

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Fucus serratus

Fucus serratus is a seaweed of the north Atlantic Ocean, known as toothed wrack, serrated wrack, or saw rack.

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Fucus spiralis

Fucus spiralis is a species of seaweed, a brown alga (Heterokontophyta, Phaeophyceae), living on the littoral shore of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America.

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Fucus vesiculosus

Fucus vesiculosus, known by the common names bladderwrack, black tang, rockweed, sea grapes, bladder fucus, sea oak, cut weed, dyers fucus, red fucus and rock wrack, is a seaweed found on the coasts of the North Sea, the western Baltic Sea and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

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Google News

Google News is a news aggregator service developed by Google.

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Harbor seal

The harbor (or harbour) seal (Phoca vitulina), also known as the common seal, is a true seal found along temperate and Arctic marine coastlines of the Northern Hemisphere.

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Important Bird Area

An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations.

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Inlet

An inlet is a (usually long and narrow) indentation of a shoreline, such as a small arm, cove, bay, sound, fjord, lagoon or marsh, that leads to an enclosed larger body of water such as a lake, estuary, gulf or marginal sea.

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Irish Sea

The Irish Sea is a body of water that separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain.

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Jacob Georg Agardh

Jacob Georg Agardh (8 December 1813 in Lund, Sweden – 17 January 1901 in Lund, Sweden) was a Swedish botanist, phycologist, and taxonomist.

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Killyleagh

Killyleagh is a village and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Last Glacial Period

The Last Glacial Period (LGP), also known as the Last glacial cycle, occurred from the end of the Last Interglacial to the beginning of the Holocene, years ago, and thus corresponds to most of the timespan of the Late Pleistocene.

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Lecale

Lecale is a peninsula in the east of County Down, Northern Ireland. Strangford Lough and Lecale are Landforms of County Down.

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List of loughs of Ireland

This is an alphabetical list of loughs (lakes) on the island of Ireland.

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Loch

Loch is a word meaning "lake" or "sea inlet" in Scottish and Irish Gaelic, subsequently borrowed into English.

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Maerl

Maerl (also rhodolith) is a collective name for non-geniculate coralline red algae with a certain growth habit.

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Marine Conservation Zone

A Marine Conservation Zone (MCZ) is a type of marine nature reserve in UK waters.

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Metre per second

The metre per second is the unit of both speed (a scalar quantity) and velocity (a vector quantity, which has direction and magnitude) in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the speed of a body covering a distance of one metre in a time of one second.

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Narrows

A narrows or narrow (used interchangeably but usually in the plural form), is a restricted land or water passage.

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Nendrum Monastery

Nendrum Monastery (Irish: Naondroim) was a Christian monastery on Mahee Island in Strangford Lough, County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Newry, Mourne and Down District Council

Newry, Mourne and Down District Council (Irish: Comhairle Ceantair an Iúir, Mhúrn agus an Dúin) is a local authority in Northern Ireland that was established on 1 April 2015.

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Newtownards

Newtownards is a town in County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland that is variously described as a country, province or region.

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Oceanography

Oceanography, also known as oceanology, sea science, ocean science, and marine science, is the scientific study of the ocean.

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Pelvetia

Pelvetia canaliculata, the channelled wrack, is a very common brown alga (Phaeophyceae) found on the rocks of the upper shores of Europe.

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Portaferry

Portaferry is a small town in County Down, Northern Ireland, at the southern end of the Ards Peninsula, near the Narrows at the entrance to Strangford Lough.

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Portaferry–Strangford ferry

The Portaferry–Strangford ferry service crosses Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland at its narrowest point, close to where the lough joins the Irish Sea.

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Queen's University Belfast

The Queen's University of Belfast, commonly known as Queen's University Belfast (Ollscoil na Banríona; abbreviated Queen's or QUB), is a public research university in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

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SeaGen

SeaGen was the world's first large scale commercial tidal stream generator.

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Special Area of Conservation

A special area of conservation (SAC) is defined in the European Union's Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC), also known as the Directive on the Conservation of Natural Habitats and of Wild Fauna and Flora.

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Sporobolus anglicus

Sporobolus anglicus (common cordgrass) is a hybrid-derived species of cordgrass that originated in southern England in about 1870 and is a neonative species in Britain.

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Strangford

Strangford (from Old Norse Strangr fjörðr, meaning "strong sea-inlet") is a small village at the mouth of Strangford Lough, on the Lecale peninsula in County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Tidal power

Tidal power or tidal energy is harnessed by converting energy from tides into useful forms of power, mainly electricity using various methods.

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Turbine

A turbine (from the Greek τύρβη, tyrbē, or Latin turbo, meaning vortex) is a rotary mechanical device that extracts energy from a fluid flow and converts it into useful work.

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Ulster Museum

The Ulster Museum, located in the Botanic Gardens in Belfast, has around 8,000 square metres (90,000 sq. ft.) of public display space, featuring material from the collections of fine art and applied art, archaeology, ethnography, treasures from the Spanish Armada, local history, numismatics, industrial archaeology, botany, zoology and geology.

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Watt

The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3.

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Wildlife

Wildlife refers to undomesticated animal species, but has come to include all organisms that grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangford_Lough

Also known as Loch Cuan, Strangford Lough AONB, Strangford Narrows, Strangrfjörthr.

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Strangford Lough, the Glossary

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See also

Important Bird Areas of Northern Ireland

Landforms of County Down

Marine reserves of Northern Ireland

Newtownards

Portaferry

Ramsar sites in Northern Ireland

Sea loughs of Northern Ireland

Special Areas of Conservation in County Down

Special Protection Areas in Northern Ireland

References