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3 unusual facts about the Lizard


Action of 8 April 1740

On 8 April Mayne's squadron was patrolling some 300 miles south-west of The Lizard when a ship was sighted to the north.

Népouite

Lizardite is named after its type locality on the Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, UK.

Phil Varone

They earned a Gold Record for the album, The Lizard as well as a Billboard top 10 single for the song, "Love is On the Way".


All Souls Church, Halifax

It is made in serpentine from The Lizard and is carried on a pedestal of Aberdeen granite.

Bryan Ingham

At this stage of his career, Ingham consciously rejected the prospect of pursuing a career as an establishment artist, although the RA was open to him, and he went to live in remote cottage on the west side of Predannack Airfield on The Lizard, a location yards from the cliffs and devoid of electricity and running water.

Lizard complex

The rocks found in The Lizard area are analogous to those found in such famous areas as the Troodos Mountains, Cyprus and the Semail Complex, Oman.

Thomas George Bonney

His attention was specially directed to the study of the igneous and metamorphic rocks in Alpine regions and in various parts of England (e.g.: the Lizard in Cornwall, at Salcombe and in the Charnwood Forest), Wales and the Scottish Highlands.


see also

Black Snake Diamond Röle

Kimberley Rew - Guitar on "Do Policemen Sing?", "The Lizard", "I Watch the Cars" & "City of Shame"

Calango

:For the lizard, see Tropidurus.

Draco norvillii

The lizard was recently rediscovered after 118 years in the Jeypore Reserve Forest by Mazedul Islam and Professor Prasanta Kumar Saikia of the Animal Ecology and Wildlife Biology Laboratory of the Zoology Department, Gauhati University in 2012.

Guayaguayare

The area along Guayaguayare Bay, between the Lizard River (originally Rio de Iguanas) and the Pilote River (Rio de Pilotas) was settled by French planters and their slaves in the late eighteenth century following the 1783 Cedula de Población.

Leiolepis ngovantrii

Though the lizard has been long known to and enjoyed by locals in Vietnam's Mekong River Delta, scientists first discovered the species in 2010 after seeing them sold and eaten in many remote Vietnamese village restaurants in Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu Province, South Vietnam.

Lizard Lick Towing

The show is a spin-off of the truTV series All Worked Up, and follows Ron, Amy, Bobby and their team of repossession agents in Wendell, North Carolina (the town that has jurisdiction over the Lizard Lick unincorporated area).

Monster Hunters

When they arrive at Midnight Mountain in Borneo, they are again attacked by the Lizard Men, who succeed in capturing Hurricane.

Pristidactylus torquatus

Although the Nothofagus forests are being felled, they are being replaced by stands of Eucalyptus and this does not seem to have adversely impacted the lizard.

Sago monitor

The lizard was named obor (meaning "torch" in Indonesian) due to its unique coloration.

The Musical Dimension of Sleastak

The album title is a reference to the Sleestak, the lizard-like antagonists in the 1974 TV series Land of the Lost.

Twist-necked turtle

The lizard genus Lacerta and fish genus Phoxinus are the only other known examples of diploid-triploid mosaicism.