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    Brownsea Island is the largest of the islands in Poole Harbour in the county of Dorset, England. The island is owned by the National Trust with the northern...
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    The Brownsea Island Scout camp was the site of a boys' camping event on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour, southern England, organised by Lieutenant-General...
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    Harbour in Dorset, England, from the threat of French attack. Located on Brownsea Island, it comprised a stone blockhouse with a hexagonal gun platform. It...
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  • July 1865 – 28 April 1961) called "the Demon of Brownsea", was the reclusive owner of Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour, Dorset from 1927 until her death...
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    Furzey Island is an island in Poole Harbour in the English county of Dorset. The island lies to the south of the larger Brownsea Island. Seen from the...
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    Maryland is a deserted village on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour, Dorset, England. It was named for the wife of its founder, Colonel William Petrie...
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    waterlogged remains of a 2000-year-old Iron Age logboat were found off Brownsea Island. Dated at about 295 BC, the 10 metres (33 ft) Poole Logboat is one...
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  • A recursive island or lake, also known as a nested island or lake, is an island or a lake that lies within a lake or an island. For the purposes of defining...
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  • ninth-largest island in the world. Great Britain (the largest island in Europe) Barrow Island Bawden Rocks Brownsea Island Canvey Island Coquet Island Drake's...
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  • Brownsea Island Ferries Ltd is a company that operates ferries to Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour from Poole and Sandbanks. It also operates cruises...
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    lieutenant general in the British Army held a Scouting encampment on Brownsea Island in England. Baden-Powell wrote Scouting for Boys (London, 1908), partly...
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  • islands of England (excluding the mainland which is itself a part of the island of Great Britain), as well as a table of the largest English islands by...
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    also read by boys. In August 1907, he held a demonstration camp, the Brownsea Island Scout camp, which is now seen as the beginning of Scouting. Based on...
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    the Home Office had in 1962 taken a group of boys from a borstal to Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour, where seven had escaped overnight and collided one...
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  • owned Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour, Dorset, and being a recluse she had forbidden access to the Island for many years. In effect, the island had been...
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    which closely matched the strain carried by modern red squirrels on Brownsea Island, UK. The greatest risk factor for developing leprosy is contact with...
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    church at Brownsea Island, Dorset, England. The church was built in 1853–54 and is a Grade II* listed building. A church for Brownsea Island was built...
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    bus station, near to Poole railway station. List of beaches in Dorset "Island on the market for £2.5 million", BBC News 13 April 2005 Morris, Steven....
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    Green Island is an island in Poole Harbour in the English county of Dorset. It lies in the central south part of the harbour, south of Brownsea Island and...
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  • broadcast from 27 October – 6 November, Oddie and Humble were based at Brownsea Island, one of the few places in southern England where red squirrels can...
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    Boer War at the siege of Mafeking, and on his experimental camp on Brownsea Island, England. Scouting for Boys (1908) was Baden-Powell's rewrite of his...
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    from which it is separated by Poole Harbour. The parish includes Brownsea Island within the harbour. In the 2011 census the parish had 182 households...
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    the Scouting movement. The Brownsea Island Scout camp, formed in 1907, began as a boys' camping event on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour, southern England...
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    Woolgar, Brian; La Riviere, Sheila (2002). Why Brownsea? The Beginnings of Scouting. Brownsea Island Scout and Guide Management Committee (re-issue 2007...
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    meeting space for training and section meetings. Brownsea Island Scout camp is located on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour and is notable among Scouting...
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  • "Weymouth to Lulworth". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 31 May 2023. "Kimmeridge to Brownsea Island". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 31 May 2023. McGrath, Nick (29 May 2023). "Michael...
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  • Why Brownsea? The Beginnings of Scouting. Brownsea Island Scout and Guide Management Committee. Johnny Walker. "Scouting Milestones — Brownsea Island"....
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    broadleaved woodland followed and today the island has the single largest red squirrel population in Wales. Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour is also populated...
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  • survival. Scouts from as far away as Florida have participated. The Brownsea Island Adventure is a summer camp program designed to help younger Scouts...
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    van Raaltes, the owners of Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour, and his steam yacht, the Elettra, was often moored on Brownsea or at The Haven Hotel. Marconi...
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