Chapter 2: What is the UK? — Set 10

Opened in 2017, the Queensferry Crossing carries the M90 across the Firth of Forth between South Queensferry, near Edinburgh, and North Queensferry in Fife. It is the third bridge across the Forth at Queensferry.

The Second Severn Crossing, opened in 1996, was officially renamed the Prince of Wales Bridge in July 2018. It carries the M4 over the Severn Estuary between England and South Wales.

The Clifton Suspension Bridge crosses the Avon Gorge and the River Avon, linking Clifton in Bristol with Leigh Woods in North Somerset. It was completed in 1864, after Brunel's death, as a memorial to him.

The Tyne Bridge, opened in 1928, carries the road across the River Tyne between Newcastle upon Tyne on the north bank and Gateshead on the south bank, and has become a symbol of Tyneside.

Cross Fell is the highest point of the Pennines, the chain of hills running down the north of England, and the highest summit in England outside the Lake District.

By tradition, each new monarch faces the opposite way on coins to their predecessor. Queen Elizabeth II faced right, so King Charles III faces left on his coins.

The daffodil is the national flower of Wales and the leek is one of its oldest emblems; both are often worn on St David's Day. The shamrock is the symbol of Northern Ireland, and the thistle is the national flower of Scotland.

The whole UK keeps the same time — Greenwich Mean Time in winter and British Summer Time in summer — with no time differences between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The French call the Channel 'La Manche', meaning 'the Sleeve', because of the way the sea narrows like a sleeve between England and France.

Douglas, on the island's east coast, is the capital of the Isle of Man and its largest town. St Helier is the capital of Jersey.

St Peter Port is the capital of Guernsey and St Helier is the capital of Jersey, and both islands are Crown Dependencies. Stanley is the capital of the Falkland Islands, which are a British Overseas Territory, and St Davids is a small city in Wales.

St Peter Port is the capital of Guernsey, the second largest of the Channel Islands, and the island's main port.

Stanley, on East Falkland, is the capital and only town of the Falkland Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic Ocean.

In 1930 the final 36 islanders of St Kilda, living on the main island of Hirta, asked to be evacuated and were taken to the Scottish mainland, ending centuries of permanent settlement on Britain's most remote islands.

Fair Isle sits in the North Sea roughly midway between Orkney and Shetland, and is administered as part of Shetland. It is one of the UK's most isolated inhabited islands.

The Great Glen runs in a remarkably straight line for about 100 km from Inverness, on the Moray Firth, to Fort William, at the head of Loch Linnhe, following the Great Glen Fault and a chain of lochs including Loch Ness.

Beachy Head's cliff rises about 162 metres (530 feet) above the sea, making it the highest chalk sea cliff in Britain. It stands at the eastern end of the Seven Sisters cliffs.

The Mull of Galloway, at the end of the Rhins of Galloway peninsula, is the southernmost point of Scotland, crowned by a lighthouse built in 1830.

The Solway Firth separates Cumbria in north-west England from Dumfries and Galloway in south-west Scotland, and the western end of the England–Scotland border runs along it.

The Pentland Firth lies between Orkney and the north coast of mainland Scotland in Caithness. Ferries to Orkney cross it, and its fast tides are among the strongest in the world.

Scafell Pike in the Lake District stands at 978 metres (3,209 feet). For comparison, Cross Fell is 893 metres, Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) is 1,085 metres and Ben Nevis is 1,344 metres (the handbook figure).

Snaefell is the highest mountain on the Isle of Man and its only summit above 2,000 feet. The island's famous mountain road, used by the TT races, climbs its lower slopes.

Strangford Lough lies in County Down, connected to the Irish Sea by the narrow Strangford Narrows. It is Northern Ireland's largest sea lough and an important wildlife haven.

Dundee overlooks the Firth of Tay, the estuary of the River Tay, Scotland's longest river. The firth is crossed near the city by both a road bridge and a rail bridge.