The Isle of Sheppey is an island off the northern coast of Kent, England, neighbouring the Thames Estuary, centred 42 miles (68 km) from central London. It has an area of 36 square miles (93 km2). The island forms part of the local government district of Swale. Sheppey is derived from Old English Sceapig, meaning "Sheep Island".
Sheppey as seen by the Operational Land Imager on the satellite Landsat 8
Welcome sign
The Kingsferry Bridge, which lifts both road and rail, here letting a ship go through
The Sheppey Crossing with the towers of the Kingsferry Bridge at left, seen from the island
The Thames Estuary is where the River Thames meets the waters of the North Sea, in the south-east of Great Britain.
The half of the estuary that lies east of its narrow Tideway-named part, by the Operational Land Imager
London Stone, Yantlet Creek
Wind farms in the estuary, in this case the London Array.
The Blackwater Estuary, on the Essex coast, in the northern part of the Greater Thames Estuary. Mersea Island is on the right.