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    The Western Rocks (Cornish: Karregi Gorlewen) are a group of uninhabited skerries and rocks in the south–western part of the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom...
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    The Scilly naval disaster of 1707 was the loss of four warships of a Royal Navy fleet off the Isles of Scilly in severe weather on 22 October 1707. Between...
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  • Western Rocks may refer to Western Rocks, Isles of Scilly, a group of uninhabited islets in south-western England Western Rocks (Tasmania), a group of...
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    island of the Isles of Scilly. Thus the island's Troy Town Farm is the southernmost settlement in the United Kingdom. St Agnes joins the island of Gugh...
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    largest of the Isles of Scilly, England. Telegraph is located in the north west of the island and is the highest point on St Mary's and in the Isles of Scilly...
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    The Isles of Scilly (/ˈsɪli/ SIL-ee; Standard Written Form: Syllan, Enesek Syllan, or Enesow Syllan) is an archipelago off the southwestern tip of Cornwall...
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    This is a list of the islands in the Isles of Scilly. There are five inhabited islands of the Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, United Kingdom (six if you count...
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    The list of shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly is a list of ships which sank on or near the Isles of Scilly. The list includes ships that sustained a damaged...
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  • Head, Western Rocks, Isles of Scilly at 49°51′N 6°24′W / 49.850°N 6.400°W / 49.850; -6.400 Southernmost settlement – St Agnes, Isles of Scilly at 49°53′N...
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    (Cornish: Breyer, lit. 'place of hills') is one of the smallest inhabited islands of the Isles of Scilly, with a population of 177 in 2021, spread across...
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    63 hectares (1.6 acres)) of the group of rocks known as the Western Rocks, Isles of Scilly. The islands are on eastern side of the Atlantic Ocean on the...
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    Crim Rocks (Cornish: Kribyn "little reef") is a small group of uninhabited islands in the Isles of Scilly, England, United Kingdom. The Crim Rocks are...
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    Isles of Scilly Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and part of the Scilly Heritage Coast. The Isles are not so exposed to gales as the Western Rocks;...
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    Norrard (Northern) Rocks are a group of small uninhabited granite rocks in the north–western part of the Isles of Scilly, to the west of Bryher and Samson...
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    island') is the northernmost populated island of the Isles of Scilly, England, United Kingdom. It has an area of 237 hectares (0.92 sq mi). There are three...
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    Great Blue Hole (category Caves of Belize)
    Great Blue Hole is a giant marine sinkhole off the coast of Belize. It lies near the center of Lighthouse Reef, a small atoll 70 km (43 mi) from the mainland...
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    International Airport in 1984 to facilitate tourism in the area. It was the western hemisphere's first privately owned international airport. The electricity...
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  • were found in 1969 on Tearing Ledge, Western Rocks, Isles of Scilly. The site was designated under the Protection of Wrecks Act on 12 February 1975. The...
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    small area, the Isles of Scilly, lies in the warmest zone in the British Isles, zone 10 which is close to subtropical. The Geology of England is mainly...
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  • Western Rocks, Isles of Scilly. 11 January — Phoenix: The East India Company ship carrying white pepper and cloth wrecked on the Western Rocks, Isles...
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    Cenote (category Caves of Mexico)
    soluble rocks Quintana Roo Speleological Survey – Data repository for explored sites within the state of Quintana Roo Saltwater intrusion – Movement of saline...
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    the case of the Sawmill Sink in the Bahamas. Blue holes are formed through Karst processes and require a specific type of topography. Rocks such as limestone...
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    kilometres north of Dahab, Egypt on the coast of the Red Sea. The Blue Hole is a submarine sinkhole, with a maximum depth within the hole of just over 100 m...
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    Cornubian batholith (category Geology of Cornwall)
    100 km southwest of the Isles of Scilly, to the eastern edge of Dartmoor. The negative gravity anomaly, caused by the relatively low density of the granites...
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    The list of shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly is a list of ships which sank on or near the Isles of Scilly. The list includes ships that sustained a damaged...
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  • Pednathise Head (category Uninhabited islands of the Isles of Scilly)
    point of England, the United Kingdom, and the British Isles if the Channel Islands are excluded. It is part of the Western Rocks group of the Isles of Scilly...
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    56000°N 104.47833°E / 3.56000; 104.47833 HMS Prince of Wales was a King George V-class battleship of the Royal Navy that was built at the Cammell Laird...
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    Cozumel (redirect from History of Cozumel)
    of the best scuba-diving destinations in the world. Scuba diving is one of Cozumel's primary attractions, mainly due to the coral reef on the western...
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    sections which were prepared by Joseph Gentili and R.W. Fairbridge of the University of Western Australia Davies, P.J., Symonds, P.A., Feary, D.A., Pigram, C...
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    HMHS Britannic (category Passenger ships of the United Kingdom)
    in order for her stock of coal to be replenished. After she returned, she spent four weeks as a floating hospital off the Isle of Wight. The third voyage...
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