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2 unusual facts about HeadLand


HeadLand

Five were not interested for various reasons, and a big reworking of the original concept was undertaken and the show was renamed Campus, and later Ten Degrees South — a title eventually rejected due to a possible confusion with UK series 55 Degrees North.

Headland, Alabama

Headland was home to the Headland Dixie Runners, a minor league baseball team in the Alabama State League/Alabama-Florida League from 1950 to 1952.


1934 Hillman's Airways de Havilland Dragon Rapide crash

The normal route in conditions of bad visibility was from Dungeness to Le Touquet.

20 Jazz Funk Greats

The album's cover photograph was taken at Beachy Head, a chalk headland on the south coast of England, close to the town of Eastbourne in the county of East Sussex, and one of the world's most notorious suicide spots.

Achilles Point

It is found in the center of the headland between West Tamaki Head and the eastern end of St Heliers Bay beach.

Alexandra Headland, Queensland

The headland was once known as Potts Point, named after overseer John Potts employed by William Pettigrew who lived on the land from the year 1880 to 1890, when it was used to transport timber between Cotton Tree and Mooloolah River by bullock.

Alverstoke

Several of Palmerston's Follies were sited within the parish, including Fort Gilkicker, a 19th-century coastal battery fort, which located at the eastern end of Stokes Bay, where it sits across a wide curved natural headland (promontory) taken up by Gosport & Stokes Bay Golf Club.

Andy Croft

Writing Residencies include the Hartlepool Headland, the Great North Run, the Southwell Poetry Festival, the Combe Down Stone Mines Project, HMP Holme House and HMP South Yorkshire.He has given many poetry readings, including readings in Paris, Moscow, Potsdam, Sofia, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, New York and London's Poetry International.

ANZAC Cove

The only way onto the beach was via the CWGC cemeteries at each headland, Arıburnu Cemetery, and Beach Cemetery.

Beach house

One of the most famous twentieth century beach gardens was constructed by Derek Jarman at Dungeness, England.

Boddam, Aberdeenshire

The area around the headland of Buchan Ness was for many centuries the point from which trading and whaling voyages departed across open ocean, bound for Archangel, Greenland and Spitsbergen amongst other destinations.

Burton Point, Cheshire

:For the headland in the Biscoe Islands, see Burton Point

Calf Point

The headland was charted and named in 1911 by the Northern Party, led by Victor Campbell, of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, and named because of the great number of young seals, known as calves, distributed nearby this headland.

Cape Dezhnev

This route was important enough that, according to an analysis by linguist Michael Krauss, the Central Siberian Yupik language continued up the coast, un-interrupted by the Naukansky dialect spoken in Naukan village on the headland.

Cape Turnagain

Cape Turnagain is a prominent headland on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island, part way between Hawke Bay and Cook Strait, between the mouths of the Porangahau and Akitio Rivers.

Cape Woolamai, Victoria

The headland contains remnant vegetation and wildlife such as an important breeding colony of the Short-tailed Shearwater or Australian Muttonbird.

Château de Rosanbo

In the 14th Century, a fortified castle was built on a strategic headland, located 4 miles from the bay of Saint-Michel-en-Grève in order to prevent the ascent of the Bô by Scandinavian invaders.

Colony of Virginia

Initially, the term "Virginia" was applied to the entire eastern coast of North America from the 34th parallel (near Cape Fear) north to the 48th parallel, including the shorelines of Acadia and a large portion of inland Canada.

Deception Island

Baily Head, a prominent headland forming the easternmost extremity of the island, has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports a very large breeding colony of Chinstrap Penguins (100,000 pairs).

East Pomeranian Offensive

Gdynia was taken on 26 March 1945, its defenders and many civilians retreating to the headland at Oksywie, from where they were evacuated to the Hel Peninsula.

Famagusta District

Cape Greco, also known as Capo Greco (Italian; Greek: Κάβο Γκρέκο "Greek cape"), is a headland in the southeastern part of the district.

Fort Tas-Silġ

Its primary function was as a fire control point controlling the massed guns of Fort Delimara on the headland below.

Glegir Mawr SSSI

It is a stony coastal headland and has been designated principally because of the occurrence of Tuberaria guttata the Spotted Rockrose which is a nationally rare plant and also the County flower of Anglesey.

Grovers Cliff

Grovers Cliff is a shoreline escarpment at Broad Sound near the Port of Boston and by extension, the landform extending into the sea (headland) that is the "Highlands" section of Winthrop, Massachusetts.

Hornby Lighthouse

Hornby Lighthouse, also known as South Head Lower Light, is an active lighthouse located on the tip of South Head, New South Wales, Australia, a headland to the north of the suburb Watsons Bay.

Hörnum

From this southern headland, a good view may be had on the neighbouring islands of Föhr and Amrum.

Jolyon James

Back in Australia, James appeared on TV screens again in shows such as Headland, City Homicide, Rush and Offspring, as well as playing Schuurman in the 2008 TV Movie Krakatoa.

Karma County

In October 2008 the band released a 36 track double album, "Headland" through Vitamin Records.

Kinbane Castle

Kinbane Castle (Caislen Ceinn Bán, White Head Castle, Kenbane Castle) is situated in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, on a long, narrow limestone headland projecting into the sea, approximately 5 km from Ballycastle on the road to Ballintoy.

Lake Bolsena

Next to Marta are Valentano and Capodimonte, the latter being built on and around nearly the only headland on the lake, which forms a protective harbor.

Center is Bisentina, with Martana to the right and the headland of Capodimonte to the right of it.

Le Couperon dolmen and guardhouse

It supported a battery on the headland above as a magazine and shelter for the members of the Jersey militia that served the battery.

Le Hocq

Just below Le Hocq Tower, west of the groyne of boulders, is a more pleasant sandy beach, which stretches round the headland to a very stony stretch of beach which reaches as far as Rocqueberg (Witches' Rock) and La Motte (Green Island).

Manly-Warringah Radio Society

Over the course of the weekend some of the over 400 radio-active lighthouses around the world will be contacted from headland, usually on HF frequencies.

Midtre Skagastølstind

Skagen is the finite form of skage which means "headland" or "promontory" and the name is equivalent with the famous Skagen in Denmark.

North Head

North Head, New Zealand is a volcanic cone headland in North Shore City, New Zealand, at the east end of the Waitemata Harbour.

Osman Mahamuud

Due to consistent ship crashes along the northeastern Cape Guardafui headland, Boqor Osman's kingdom entered into an informal agreement with Britain, wherein the British agreed to pay the King annual subsidies to protect shipwrecked British crews and guard wrecks against plunder.

Pallene

Pallene, Chalcidice, the westernmost headland of the Chalcidice, Greece, also called Kassandra

Pedro Mountain Road

This Pedro Mountain headland blocks the easy passage of coastal travelers between the Pedro Valley in Pacifica, California and Montara, California.

Point Barrow

The headland is an important archaeological site, yielding burials and artifacts associated with the Thule culture, including uluit and bola.

Port Erin

One of the more famous residents in recent years was racing driver Nigel Mansell who lived on the headland to the south of the bay.

Separate We Come, Separate We Go

Filming took place at sparsely populated areas of Kent and East Sussex, including Dungeness, Romney Marsh, Lydd, Camber Sands, Rye Harbour, Winchelsea Beach and Dymchurch.

Stokes Bay

To the east of Stokes Bay is Fort Gilkicker, which was built in 1871 to guard the headland and the western approaches to Portsmouth Harbour and housed 22 gun emplacements.

Tabin Wildlife Reserve

Occupying a large part of the peninsula forming the northern headland of Darvel Bay, it is located 48 kilometers east of Lahad Datu.

The Cape

Cape of Good Hope, a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula, South Africa

Trones

Trones, Verdal, a village area and headland in Verdal municipality, Nord-Trøndelag county


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