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SM UC-61 was a German Type UC II minelaying submarine or U-boat in the German Imperial Navy (German: Kaiserliche Marine) during World War I. The U-boat was ordered on 12 January 1916, laid down on 3 April 1916, and was launched on 11 November 1916. She was commissioned into the German Imperial Navy on 13 December 1916 as SM UC-61. In five patrols UC-61 was credited with sinking or damaging 12 ships, either by torpedo or by mines laid. UC-61 was stranded at Wissant, south of Calais on 26 July 1917 on her way to mine Newhaven. The U-boat's crew flooded and scuttled their ship before surrendering to French authorities. The wreckage silted up but in some years becomes visible at low tide offshore in Wissant. As of 24 January 2019, the submarine had been partially visible since December 2018, and some locals were hopeful that due to shifting winds and tides, the submarine would be visible more often.

Tardinghen (French pronunciation: [taʁdɛ̃ɡɑ̃]; West Flemish: Terdingem, pronounced [tɛrˈdɪŋəm]; Picard: Tardinghin, pronounced [tardɪŋɛ̃]) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.

Audembert (French pronunciation: [odɑ̃bɛʁ]; West Flemish: Hondsberg) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region in northern France.

Hervelinghen (French pronunciation: [ɛʁvəlɛ̃ɡɑ̃]; West Flemish: Helvetingen) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.

Audinghen (French pronunciation: [odɛ̃ɡɑ̃]; Dutch: Oudinghen) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.

Bazinghen (French pronunciation: [bazɛ̃ɡɑ̃]; Picard: Bazinghin) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region in northern France.

Cap Blanc-Nez (French pronunciation: [kap blɑ̃ ne], literally "Cape White Nose" in English; from Dutch Blankenesse, white headland) is a cape on the Côte d'Opale, in the Pas-de-Calais département, in northern France, culminating at 134 m. The cliffs of chalk are very similar to the white cliffs of Dover on the other side of the Channel in England. Cap Blanc-Nez does not protrude into the sea like a typical cape but is a high point where a chalk ridge has been truncated by the sea, forming a cliff that is topped by the obelisk of the Dover Patrol Monument, commemorating the Dover Patrol which kept the Channel free from U-boats during World War I. Cap Blanc-Nez was a vital measuring point for the eighteenth-century trigonometric survey linking the Paris Observatory with the Royal Greenwich Observatory. Sightings were made across the English Channel to Dover Castle and Fairlight Windmill on the South Downs. This Anglo-French Survey was led in England by General William Roy. Some miles away to the southwest of Cap Blanc-Nez is the Cap Gris-Nez.

Escalles (French pronunciation: [ɛskal]) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.

The canton of Marquise is a former canton situated in the department of the Pas-de-Calais and in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of northern France. It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. It consisted of 21 communes, which joined the canton of Desvres in 2015. It had a total of 21,997 inhabitants (2012).

Leubringhen (French pronunciation: [lœbʁɛ̃ɡɑ̃]) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.

The communauté de communes de la Terre des Deux Caps is located in the Pas-de-Calais département, in northern France. It was established on 1 January 2002. Its seat is Marquise. Its area is 183.3 km2, and its population was 22,197 in 2018.

The Todt Battery, also known as Batterie Todt, was a battery of coastal artillery built by Nazi Germany during World War II, located in the hamlet of Haringzelles, Audinghen, near Cape Gris-Nez, Pas de Calais, France. The battery consisted of four Krupp 380-millimetre (15 in) guns with a range up to 55.7 kilometres (34.6 mi), capable of reaching the British coast, each protected by a bunker of reinforced concrete. Originally to be called Siegfried Battery, it was renamed in honor of the German engineer Fritz Todt, creator of the Todt Organisation. It was later integrated into the Atlantic Wall. The 3rd Canadian Infantry Division attacked the Cape Gris-Nez batteries on 29 September 1944, and the positions were secured by the afternoon of the same day. The Todt battery fired for the last time on 29 September 1944 and was taken hours later by the North Nova Scotia Highlanders that landed in Normandy, as part of the 9th Infantry Brigade, 3rd Canadian Infantry Division, after an intense aerial bombardment, as part of Operation Undergo.