South East England
South East England is one of the nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes. It consists of the counties of Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Surrey and West Sussex. The region contains seven legally chartered cities: Brighton and Hove, Canterbury, Chichester, Oxford, Portsmouth, Southampton and Winchester. It is home to Gatwick Airport, the UK’s second-busiest airport.
About South East England in brief
South East England is one of the nine official regions of England at the first level of NUTS for statistical purposes. It consists of the counties of Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Surrey and West Sussex. The region contains seven legally chartered cities: Brighton and Hove, Canterbury, Chichester, Oxford, Portsmouth, Southampton and Winchester. It is home to Gatwick Airport, the UK’s second-busiest airport, and Heathrow Airport is located adjacent to the region’s boundary with Greater London. Much of the Battle of Britain was fought in this region, especially in Kent. Some of the events of the 2012 Summer Olympics were held in the south east, including the rowing at Eton Dorney and part of the cycling road race in the Surrey Hills. The River Thames flows through the region and its basin is known as the Thames Valley, and is also the location of a number of internationally known places of interest, such as HMS Victory in Portsmouth, Cliveden in Buckinghamshire and Thorpe Park and RHS Wisley in Surrey. It also contains the North Downs and the Chiltern Hills as well as two national parks: the New Forest and the South Downs. South East England has many universities; the University of Oxford is ranked among the best in the world. It was home to the annual Henley Royal Regatta, Royal Ascot and The Derby, and sporting venues include Wentworth Golf Club and Brands Hatch.
In 1913 Henry Moseley discovered the X-ray spectra of chemical elements that enabled him to assign the correct atomic number to the elements in the periodic table of elements. John Wallis of Kent, introduced the symbol for infinity, and the standard notation for powers of numbers in 1656. Thomas Bayes was an important statistician from Tunbridge Wells; his theorem is used for spam filters and Google’s search. The Apollo space-suit cooling system originated in the early 1960s and was led by a team led by Donald Watts Davies, who took over grammar school from Alan Turing in Portsmouth in 1960s. In the 1990s, Sir David N. Payne invented erbium fibre amplifier, a type of optical amplifier, in the mid-1980s, which became essential for the internet. He is not awarded any Nobel Prize as he was killed in 1915 at Gallipoli with the Royal Engineers, and he was not awarded posthumously with the Gallipolis Medal for his work on the Royal School of Music. The London 2012 Olympics was held in London, and some of the sporting events were held at the venues including Henley, Ascot, The Derby and St James’ Park. The 2012 Winter Olympics also took place in London and the games were won by Team GB in the men’s rowing competition, which took place at the Eton Rowing Club in Eton, Dorney, Epsom and Epsom & Eton.
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