- Spithead
Location map|United Kingdom
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caption = Map showing the location of Spithead within the United Kingdom.
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width = 200Spithead is an area of the
Solent and a roadstead off Gilkicker Point inHampshire ,England . It is protected from all winds, except those from the southeast. It receives its name from the Spit, a sandbank stretching south from the Hampshire shore for 5 km (3 miles); and it is 22.5 km (14 miles) long by about 6.5 km (4 miles) in average breadth.The "Spithead Review of the Royal Navy" is famous, where the
Monarch of theUnited Kingdom reviews a large fleet ofwarship s.In
1797 there was amutiny (the Spithead mutiny) in the Royal Navy fleet at anchor at Spithead.Spithead has been strongly defended since
1864 by fortifications completing those ofPortsmouth .
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