The Needles Lighthouse is an active 19th century lighthouse on the outermost of the chalk rocks at The Needles on the Isle of Wight in the United Kingdom...
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The waters and adjoining seabed form part of the Needles Marine Conservation Zone and the Needles along with the shore and heath above are part of the...
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positions are given in degrees and decimal minutes. For instance, The Needles lighthouse is at 50°39.734′ N 001°35.500′ W. This article relates to coordinate...
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The Needles Batteries are two military batteries built above the Needles stacks to guard the West end of the Solent. The field of fire was from approximately...
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positions are given in degrees and decimal minutes, for instance The Needles lighthouse is at 50º 39.734’N 001º 35.500’W. Related to cartography, property...
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SS Varvassi (category Shipwrecks of the Needles)
just off the Needles lighthouse, which is at the western end of the Isle of Wight. The ship crashed about 150 metres west of the lighthouse. The Isle of...
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This is a list of lighthouses in England. It includes lighthouses which are no longer in use as a light but are still standing. It also includes some...
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l'Egypte: Cleopatra's Needles: After this famous monument, the oldest and most curious in modern Alexandria are these two Needles, or Obelisks, which are...
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shepherd named Tom, the only other person on the island. Tom runs the lighthouse and the island's only two-way radio. A passionate romance develops overnight...
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Festival 1970. The Needles Old Battery, a Victorian fort and post-Second World War High Down Rocket Test Site. Needles Lighthouse and chalk rocks. Compton...
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Destruction Island Light (redirect from Destruction Island Lighthouse)
Destruction Island Lighthouse is a decommissioned lighthouse on Destruction Island, a rocky island that is part of the Quillayute Needles National Wildlife...
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on the Atherfield Ledge in thick fog, having missed sighting the Needles Lighthouse. She was carrying 163 crew, 227 passengers, 500 sacks of mail, and...
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of Needles". Owing to the hazards and following the loss of several vessels, notably the Arniston, a lighthouse was built in 1848. The lighthouse now...
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James Walker (engineer) (category Lighthouse builders)
Whitby North and Whitby South lighthouses, near Ling Hill, High Whitby (1857–58) Bishop Rock lighthouse (1858) Needles Lighthouse, Isle of Wight (1859) Completion...
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designed by Brevet Major Edmund Henderson, is completed. Needles Lighthouse on The Needles off the Isle of Wight, designed by James Walker, is built...
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be obscured behind the Needles from certain directions; consequently, in 1812, this tower was supplemented by the High Lighthouse, a new tower at a higher...
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terminally ill, is wheeled across it later this month. 22 May – The Needles lighthouse on the Isle of Wight is first illuminated. 6 June – the British Crown...
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November. Peak gusts reached 100 miles per hour (160 km/h) at The Needles lighthouse, Isle of Wight. A tornado developed in Benfleet, Essex, damaging 60...
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L'Agulhas (section Lighthouse)
compass needle point North, directly to the modern day location of L’Agulhas. The Cape Agulhas Lighthouse, the second-oldest working lighthouse in South...
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children and defender of their human rights across the globe. "Lighthouse Patrons". Lighthouse Foundation. Archived from the original on 16 May 2013. Retrieved...
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with War Knight ( United Kingdom) in the English Channel off the Needles Lighthouse, Isle of Wight. She was towed into Sandown Bay where she continued...
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Rosses Point (section Metal Man Lighthouse)
is an 8m high square structure on wooden staves to guide boats down the Needles Channel to Drumcliff bay. Originally built in 1908 it is now solar powered...
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SS Irex (category Shipwrecks of the Needles)
English Channel towards Portland. As Irex approached the Needles, Hutton mistook the Needles Lighthouse for a light from a pilot boat, and drove his ship up...
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seabirds, shorebirds, and marine mammals, it is part of the Quillayute Needles National Wildlife Refuge. Hoh native Americans used to frequent Destruction...
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The Needle Rocks, also known as the Needles, are a group of five main rock islets located close to the south-western coast of Tasmania, Australia. With...
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original on 27 March 2012. Retrieved 26 September 2011. "Aground near The Needles". The Times. No. 50651. London. 6 January 1947. col B, p. 8. "Casualties...
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singer and pricks her with a needle. The poet wakes up in a cold sweat and decides to take action. He observes the lighthouse from a hill, which now casts...
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Guernsey to render her assistance. In 1910, 21 miles south of the Needle’s lighthouse, she collided with the Norwegian ship Sophie, of Lavinia, bound from...
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Hurst Spit (section Lighthouses)
of King Henry VIII, and much enlarged in the 19th century. Hurst Point Lighthouse was built on the end of Hurst Spit in the 1860s. Hurst Spit is a hook-shaped...
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Sequoia National Forest (section The Needles)
include glacier-carved landscapes and impressive granite monoliths. The Needles are a series of granite spires atop a narrow ridge above the Kern River...
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