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2 unusual facts about Scarp


Scarp, Scotland

The artist Norman Adams bought a croft house on the island in 1963 with his wife Anna and two sons, and painted many of his well known works there in his distinctive style over the next ten summers.

The Rocket Post

The story is very loosely based on experiments in 1934 by the German inventor Gerhard Zucker to provide a postal service to the island of Scarp by rocket mail.


1983 Borah Peak earthquake

The rupture caused clear surface faulting  a 21 mile (34 km) long northwest moving zone of fresh scarps and ground rupture was present on a slope of the Lost River Range.

Bowra Sanctuary

Bowra is characterised by Mulga communities, mixed with Poplar Box and bloodwoods, on the scarp and ridges in the north of the property.

Gerhard Zucker

A movie based on Zucker's attempts with mail rockets at Scarp was made 2004, called The Rocket Post, starring Ulrich Thomsen as Zucker.

Helena Valley, Western Australia

The river valley is the centre of the catchment of the Helena River and extends from the edge of the Darling Scarp where Boya, Gooseberry Hill and Helena Valley define the 'mouth' of the valley that opens to the Swan Coastal Plain, east and south east past Mundaring Weir and Lake C.Y. O'Connor to its origins in the region of Mount Dale.

Kidson

Cape Kidson, abrupt rock scarp on the north side of the entrance to New Bedford Inlet, Palmer Land, Antarctica

Old Swan Band

Broadening her repertoire to embrace European influences, she joined Blowzabella and its spin-off Scarp; she also plays with Token Women (as do her sister Fi and Heather Horsley) and with her own pan-European group called Freyja.

Polygonal fort

Access to the fort was down a curving ramp cut into the glacis, then through a gatehouse set deep in the scarp of the ditch, reached by a rolling bridge that withdrew into the gatehouse.

Yuzhmash

Missiles produced at Yuzhmash included the first nuclear armed Soviet rocket R-5M (SS-3 'Shyster'), the R-12 Dvina (SS-4 'Sandal'), the R-14 Chusovaya (SS-5 'Skean'), the first widely deployed Soviet ICBM R-16 (SS-7 'Saddler'), the R-36 (SS-9 'Scarp'), the MR-UR-100 Sotka (SS-17 'Spanker'), and the R-36M (SS-18 'Satan').


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