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Length of coast

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One obvious omission from this article is any mention of the length of the Welsh coast (which by the way was a name I also considered using for this article), but see How Long Is the Coast of Britain? Statistical Self-Similarity and Fractional Dimension. Geopersona (talk) 11:51, 17 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

True, but from the perspective of an international readership who may know little about the country, we should give a figure or figures set out in reliable sources, such as an encyclopedia. Ghmyrtle (talk) 23:00, 17 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed - and I've some tidying up to do, and additional references to provide yet, as you'll have noted! thanks Geopersona (talk) 11:55, 18 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
So I've added the 1680 mile figure quoted by the IWA though where they derived that figure from I don't know - the same figure quoted elsewhere on WP is referenced to the British Cartographic Society but the given link does not nowadays take you to a page where that can be verified. Interesting though hardly surprising, that it is almost double the length of the Wales Coast Path. Geopersona (talk) 16:03, 18 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Because of the issues around the figure, I thought it would be useful to mention the organisation giving the estimate. Ghmyrtle (talk) 18:11, 18 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]