The Needles (England)
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.jpg) view of the Needles (viewed from the southeast) |
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| Waters | Scratchell's Bay, English Channel | |
| archipelago | British Islands | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 40 ′ N , 1 ° 35 ′ W | |
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| Number of islands | 3 | |
| Main island | (Western rock) | |
| Total land area | 0.003.5 km² | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
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The Needles , German The needles are a group of three rocky islands of chalk a few meters off the western tip Needles Point the Isle of Wight off the south coast of England .
geography
The rocks form the northwestern boundary of Scratchell's Bay on the westernmost section of the south coast of the Isle of Wight.
The Needles are three elongated rocks with lengths between 58 and 104 meters (with widths between 10 and 17 meters), which are arranged along an imaginary, 350-meter-long line that extends in a west-southwest direction. In plan, the rocks measure around 600, 1300 and 1600 square meters from east to west and are 19, 23 and 27 meters high.
At the western end of the stands Lighthouse Needles Lighthouse , which until December 1994 had a permanent, monthly changing crew of three and has been automated.
administration
Administratively, the islands belong to the Totland Parish in the Unitary Authority Isle of Wight. In the Pre-Victorian period, before the establishment of the Totland Parish, the area belonged to the Freshwater Parish .
etymology
Isaac Taylor's 1759 depiction of the group of rocks shows a fourth, needle-shaped rock between the eastern and central rocks, which towered over the others and which fell in a storm in 1764. After this rock nobility The Needles were (German Needles ) named, although the rest of the rocks are not needle-shaped. This rock, like some other columnar rock formations worldwide (e.g. Sōfugan ), was called Lot's Wife , based on the biblical person Lot , whose wife, according to tradition, has solidified into a pillar of salt . Another name for the fallen rock needle was Cleopatra's Needle .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Area information measured on the satellite image; Nautical chart with altitude information
- ^ Lighthouses of the Isle of Wight, The Needles Lighthouses
- ^ Ian West: The Needles, Isle of Wight. Geology of the Wessex Coast of Southern England
