Street Names – A Thematic Collection: Shipping Areas

























NOTES: The Shipping Forecast is a BBC Radio broadcast of weather reports and forecasts for the seas around the coasts of the British Isles. It is produced by the Met Office (Meteorological Office) and broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. The waters around the British Isles are divided into 31 sea areas, also known as weather areas (see map below). The sequencing here is the same as on the shipping forecast - i.e. in a roughly clockwise direction around the British Isles
SEA AREAS
1 Viking √
2 North Utsire
3 South Utsire
4 Forties
5 Cromarty
6 Forth
7 Tyne
8 Dogger
9 Fisher √
10 German Bight
11 Humber √
12 Thames √
13 Dover √
14 Wight √
15 Portland
16 Plymouth √
17 Biscay √
18 Trafalgar √
19 FitzRoy
(formerly Finisterre)
20 Sole
21 Lundy √
22 Fastnet
23 Irish Sea
24 Shannon √
25 Rockall
26 Malin √
27 Hebrides
28 Bailey √
29 Fair Isle √
30 Faeroes
31 Southeast Iceland
