SS Cheviot was wrecked in rough seas near the point of which Peninsula ?
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SS Cheviot SS "Cheviot" was an iron screw steamer built by Charles Mitchell and Co., of Low Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne, England in 1870. She was owned by Wm. Howard Smith & Sons, Melbourne, Australia, for the transportation of coal and passengers. In 1887, she was wrecked in rough seas near Point Nepean in Victoria, Australia, with the loss of 35 lives, after the propeller was disabled. The beach nearby was subsequently named Cheviot Beach.
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Point Nepean Point Nepean marks the southern point of The Rip (the entrance to Port Phillip) and the most westerly point of the Mornington Peninsula, in Victoria, Australia. It was named in 1802 after the British politician and colonial administrator Sir Evan Nepean by John Murray in HMS "Lady Nelson" . Its coast and adjacent waters are included in the Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park, while its land area is part of the Point Nepean National Park. Cheviot Beach is located on Point Nepean, where the "SS Cheviot" was wrecked in 1887 and Prime Minister of Australia, Harold Holt, disappeared on 17 December 1967, presumed drowned.
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Hull Point Hull Point ( ) is a low promontory on the northeast side of Legru Bay on King George Island in the South Shetland Islands, rising about 15 m above sea level. It comprises a whale-back ridge aligned in a northwest–southeast orientation and is backed on the northeast side by a sandy beach. It was named for Professor Edward Hull, LLD, FRS, FGS, a stratigrapher from Ulster, and a structural and economic geologist. He worked with the British Geological Survey on the coalfields of England and Wales and briefly in Scotland where he compiled outstanding drift maps of Glasgow. He later became the director of the Geological Survey of Ireland.
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The Lizard Lifeboat Station The Lizard Lifeboat Station can refer to several Royal National Lifeboat Institution lifeboat stations located on The Lizard in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The first was established at the southernmost point of the peninsular in 1859. Since then successive stations have all been in operation at different locations on The Lizard. The current station is located at Kilcobben Cove 0.5 mi east of the village of Lizard.
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Lenton Point Lenton Point ( ) is the southwestern extremity of a small, rocky peninsula in Clowes Bay on the south side of Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands off Antarctica. It was roughly surveyed in 1933 by Discovery Investigations personnel, and resurveyed in 1947 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). It was named in 1954 by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Ralph A. Lenton of the FIDS, a radio operator at Signy Island base in 1948, who helped with the survey and biological work. Lenton subsequently worked at Admiralty Bay in 1949, and was leader at Deception Island in 1951, at Port Lockroy in 1952 and at the Argentine Islands in 1954.
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Ash Point Ash Point is a rounded low ice-free point forming the southeast side of the entrance to Discovery Bay in the northeast of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica with an adjacent ice-free area of 201 ha . "Letelier Bank" ( ) is lying off Ash Point, while "Bascopé Point" ( ) is situated 460 m to the southwest, with the 1 km wide "Rojas Cove" ( ) indenting for 310 m the coast between that point and Guesalaga Peninsula. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.
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Takev Point Takev Point (Bulgarian: "Такев нос" , ‘Takev Nos’ \'ta-kev 'nos\) is the rocky point forming the south extremity of Heros Peninsula on Foyn Coast, Antarctic Peninsula.
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Jefford Point Jefford Point ( ) is a point formed by a rock cliff surmounted by ice, located 8 nmi east-northeast of Cape Foster on the south coast of James Ross Island, Antarctica. The point was first surveyed by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Otto Nordenskjold. It was resurveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1948; the records being lost in a fire at Hope Bay, it was surveyed again by FIDS in 1952. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Brian Jefford, a FIDS surveyor at Hope Bay in 1948, and at Admiralty Bay in 1949.
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Out Stack Out Stack or Ootsta in Shetland, Scotland, is the northernmost point of the British Isles, lying immediately 600 m northeast of Muckle Flugga and 1.8 mi north of the island of Unst. It is one of the North Isles of the Shetland Islands and lies within the Hermaness National Nature Reserve.
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Morte Point Morte Point is a peninsula on the north west coast of Devon, England, belonging to the National Trust. To the east is the village of Mortehoe and to the south is the seaside resort of Woolacombe.
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Northmavine Northmavine or Northmaven (Old Norse: "Norðan Mæfeið" , meaning ‘the land north of the Mavis Grind’) is a peninsula on the northernmost part of the Shetland mainland in Scotland.
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Rough Firth Rough Firth is an inlet on the northern coast of the Solway Firth in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
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Cape Burd Cape Burd ( ) is a low rock cliff forming the southwest extremity of the Tabarin Peninsula, at the northeast end of the Antarctic Peninsula. It was charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1946 and named for Oliver Burd, a FIDS meteorologist who lost his life when the base hut at Hope Bay burned on November 9, 1948. Neighbouring Cape Green commemorates Michael Green, a FIDS geologist who lost his life in the same fire.
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Blunt Peninsula The Blunt Peninsula is a peninsula in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. It lies off the southeastern end of Baffin Island's Hall Peninsula. Across from the Blunt Peninsula are several large islands, including Loks Land Island, as well as hundreds of smaller islets and rocks. Frobisher Bay is located to the west, and the Labrador Sea is to the east.
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Liverpool Beach Liverpool Beach (Bulgarian: "Ливърпулски бряг" , ‘Livarpulski Bryag’ \'li-v&r-pul-ski 'bryag\) is the crescent-shaped beach extending 1.8 km on the east side of Walker Bay on the south coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is situated on the west side of the small ice-free promontory ending in Hannah Point, and bounded by Hannah Point to the west, Ustra Peak to the northeast and the terminus of Verila Glacier to the north. The picturesque beach is one of the most popular tourist sites in Antarctica, frequented by cruise ships.
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Tarbat Ness Tarbat Ness (Scottish Gaelic: "Rubha Thairbeirt") is headland that lies at the end of the Tarbat peninsula in Easter Ross, Scotland. The name is from the Gaelic "tairbeart" meaning "isthmus" and the Old Norse "ness", meaning "headland". It lies at the south of the entrance to the Dornoch Firth.
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Colwell Bay Colwell Bay (grid reference [ SZ323873] ) is a bay in the west of the Isle of Wight. It is located between the towns of Totland and Yarmouth. The bay's northernmost point is Cliff's End (Fort Albert) the closest point of the Island to the British mainland, with Hurst Castle lying at the end of a long peninsula just 1500 metres (a little less than a mile) to the northwest. The southernmost point is Warden Point.
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Mikhailov Peninsula The Mikhailov Peninsula (Russian "Poluostrov Mikhailova") is a small peninsula in the eastern shores of the Kara Sea on the western side of the Taymyr Peninsula. Its latitude is 75° 05' N and its longitude 87° 15' E.
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Hillsea Point Rock Hillsea Point Rock is an area of the English Channel located 0.5 nm south-east of Hillsea Point, Devon. It consists of seven or eight pinnacles ranging in depth between 25 metres on the sea bed and 2 metres at the surface
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Pednathise Head Pednathise Head an island that is the southernmost 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, southwest of Cornwall.
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Mistaken Point, Newfoundland and Labrador Mistaken Point is a small Canadian headland on the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Cheleken Peninsula The Cheleken Peninsula (Russian: Челекен полуостров ) is a peninsula located in western Turkmenistan, in the eastern shores of the Caspian Sea.