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Poole

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Locator map for the English administrative region of Poole.

Unitary authority in southwest England, created in 1997 from part of Dorset.

Area

64 sq km/25 sq mi

Towns and cities

Poole (administrative headquarters), Broadstone, Hillbournes, Sandbanks

Features

River Stour formers northern border of authority; Poole Harbour; Holes Bay; Pergins Island; Maritime Museum (Poole); Compton Acres themed gardens (including water, rock, heather, Japanese, Roman, Italian); Canford Heath, tumuli field; Sandbanks spit guarding entrance to harbour; ferry from Poole to Brownsea Island and the Channel Islands

Industries

boat building and repair, tourism, electro-mechanical engineering, marine engineering and marine electronics, electrical systems, aeronautical instruments

Population

(2001) 138,300

Famous people

Robert Baden-Powell (founder of the scouting movement)



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