Western Rocks
The Western Rocks are a group of uninhabited skerries and rocks in the south-western part of the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom, and are renowned for the numerous shipwrecks in the area and the nearby Bishop Rock lighthouse.Photo: John Rostron, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Richard Knights, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Island
- Description: group of rocks in the Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, England, UK
- Also known as: “Western Rocks, Isles of Scilly”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rosevear and Pednathise Head.
Rosevear
Islet
Photo: Richard Knights, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rosevear is the largest of the group of rocks known as the Western Rocks, Isles of Scilly. The islands are on the eastern side of the Atlantic Ocean on the south-west approaches to the island of Great Britain and are renowned for the numerous shipwrecks in the area and the nearby Bishop Rock lighthouse.
Pednathise Head
Photo: Richard Knights, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pednathise Head is a skerry 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.
Melledgan
Islet
Photo: Richard Knights, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Western Rocks are a group of uninhabited skerries and rocks in the south-western part of the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom, and are renowned for the numerous shipwrecks in the area and the nearby Bishop Rock lighthouse.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Middle Town and Crim Rocks.
Middle Town
Hamlet
Middle Town is a small settlement on the island of St Agnes. It includes the island's primary school, post office and general store, and the old lighthouse.
Crim Rocks
Locality
Photo: Robin Quine, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Crim Rocks is a small group of uninhabited islands in the Isles of Scilly, England, United Kingdom. The Crim Rocks are the most westward of the archipelago's Western Rocks, therefore making them the westernmost point of England.
Bartholomew Ledges Wreck
Locality
The Bartholomew Ledges Wreck is a wreck found in the late 1970s at St Marys Sound, Isles of Scilly is believed to be that of a mid-sixteenth to early seventeenth century armed cargo vessel.
Western Rocks
- Categories: island group, locality, and landform
- Location: Isles of Scilly, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
49.87174° or 49° 52′ 18″ northLongitude
-6.39109° or 6° 23′ 28″ westOpen location code
8CXMVJC5+MHOpenStreetMap ID
node 380749185OpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
3209748Wikidata ID
Q547554
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Western Rocks” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Western Rocks (mga bato)”
- Cebuano: “Western Rocks”
- Cornish: “Karregi Gorlewen”
- Dutch: “Western Rocks, Isles of Scilly”
- German: “Western Rocks”
- Italian: “Western Rocks, Isole Scilly”
- Italian: “Western Rocks”
- Japanese: “ウェスタン岩礁”
- Swedish: “Western Rocks (klippor)”
- Swedish: “Western Rocks, Scillyöarna”
- Ukrainian: “Вестерн Роккс”
- Ukrainian: “Вестерн-Рокс”
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