Spithead

Spithead is an area of the Solent and a roadstead off Gilkicker Point in Hampshire, England. It is protected from all winds, except those from the southeast. It receives its name from the Spit, a sandbank stretching south from the Hampshire shore for 5 km (3.1 mi); and it is 22.5 km (14.0 mi) long by about 6.5 km (4.0 mi) in average breadth. Spithead has been strongly defended since 1864 by fortifications complementing those of Portsmouth.

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The Fleet Review is a British tradition that usually takes place at Spithead, where the monarch reviews the massed Royal Navy.

In 1797 there was a mutiny, the Spithead mutiny, in the Royal Navy fleet at anchor at Spithead.