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:''For the television series, see Cape Wrath (TV series)''. ''For the Morrissey-Mullen album, see'' ''Cape Wrath (album)''
'Cape Wrath' (Scottish Gaelic: 'Am Parbh') is a cape in Sutherland, Highland, in northern Scotland. It is the most northwesterly point on the island of Great Britain.
The name Cape Wrath, though perhaps apt when taken in context of its remote and forbidding landscape, is actually derived from the Old Norse for "turning point". Vikings would often turn their ships for home at Cape Wrath.
The Cape can be reached only on foot from the south, or by taking a passenger ferry from Keoldale near Durness across the Kyle of Durness, and then walking, cycling or taking a minibus. The journey of around 11 miles to the lighthouse takes the visitor through a desolate and virtually uninhabited region. The area is used as a military bombardment range by the Royal Air Force; hence travel to the Cape is restricted at certain times of year. There is a lighthouse at the cape, built in 1828 by Robert Stevenson, which was manned until 1998. Overlooking the Cape are the ruins of the Lloyd's signal station which was used to monitor shipping.
Four miles east of the cape lie the Clò Mór cliffs, the highest sea cliffs on the British mainland.
Cape Wrath is one of only two places prefixed with the name "Cape" in Great Britain, the other being Cape Cornwall in Cornwall.
In 2007, Cape Wrath is rumoured to be used as a scene in the filming of ''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'' when Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore searches for one of Voldemort's Horcruxes. Cape Wrath casts its spell on Harry Potter film-makers Murdo Macleod
Cape Wrath is also the turning point (11 miles out to the lighthouse and 11 back to the ferry dock on the Cape side) for the Cape Wrath Marathon, which is billed as the 'Toughest Marathon in the UK', due to its unrelenting and continuously undulating terrain. The final leg of the race (4 miles) is run from the mainland side from the ferry dock and finishes at Durness Community Centre. The marathon is held each year as the final event in a week of races and challenges billed as 'The Cape Wrath Challenges'.
On September 27, 1915, while sailing for Scapa Flow, the ''HMS Caribbean'' (previously known as the ''Dunottar Castle'') foundered off Cape Wrath in bad weather. A tow by ''HMS Birkenhead'' was unsuccessful; 15 were lost.[1] An inquiry later blamed the ship's carpenter for being insufficiently familiar with the ship and for failing to shut all the scuttles -- like most of the crew, he had joined the ship just 10 days earlier.[1] The ship served in various capacities during World War I, but she was best known for reducing the voyage time from Southampton, England to Cape Town, South Africa by half in the 1890s, and for transporting many famous warriors to and from the Cape Colony during the Second Boer War. The wreck was found in 2004, 35 miles off Cape Wrath, undisturbed except for fishing nets.[3]
★ Extreme points of the United Kingdom
★ http://www.nlb.org.uk/ourlights/history/capewrath.htm History of Cape Wrath Lighthouse
★ trekkingvisions Information about the Cape Wrath Trek
1. Red Duster Merchant Navy Maratime Archive
2. Red Duster Merchant Navy Maratime Archive
3. Yorkshire diver first to see wreck for nearly 90 years, , Andrew, Robinson, Yorkshire Post, 2004
Cape Wrath lighthouse
'Cape Wrath' (Scottish Gaelic: 'Am Parbh') is a cape in Sutherland, Highland, in northern Scotland. It is the most northwesterly point on the island of Great Britain.
The name Cape Wrath, though perhaps apt when taken in context of its remote and forbidding landscape, is actually derived from the Old Norse for "turning point". Vikings would often turn their ships for home at Cape Wrath.
Kyle of Durness.
The Cape can be reached only on foot from the south, or by taking a passenger ferry from Keoldale near Durness across the Kyle of Durness, and then walking, cycling or taking a minibus. The journey of around 11 miles to the lighthouse takes the visitor through a desolate and virtually uninhabited region. The area is used as a military bombardment range by the Royal Air Force; hence travel to the Cape is restricted at certain times of year. There is a lighthouse at the cape, built in 1828 by Robert Stevenson, which was manned until 1998. Overlooking the Cape are the ruins of the Lloyd's signal station which was used to monitor shipping.
Four miles east of the cape lie the Clò Mór cliffs, the highest sea cliffs on the British mainland.
Cape Wrath is one of only two places prefixed with the name "Cape" in Great Britain, the other being Cape Cornwall in Cornwall.
In 2007, Cape Wrath is rumoured to be used as a scene in the filming of ''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'' when Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore searches for one of Voldemort's Horcruxes. Cape Wrath casts its spell on Harry Potter film-makers Murdo Macleod
Cape Wrath is also the turning point (11 miles out to the lighthouse and 11 back to the ferry dock on the Cape side) for the Cape Wrath Marathon, which is billed as the 'Toughest Marathon in the UK', due to its unrelenting and continuously undulating terrain. The final leg of the race (4 miles) is run from the mainland side from the ferry dock and finishes at Durness Community Centre. The marathon is held each year as the final event in a week of races and challenges billed as 'The Cape Wrath Challenges'.
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| Shipwrecks |
| See also |
| External links |
| References |
Shipwrecks
On September 27, 1915, while sailing for Scapa Flow, the ''HMS Caribbean'' (previously known as the ''Dunottar Castle'') foundered off Cape Wrath in bad weather. A tow by ''HMS Birkenhead'' was unsuccessful; 15 were lost.[1] An inquiry later blamed the ship's carpenter for being insufficiently familiar with the ship and for failing to shut all the scuttles -- like most of the crew, he had joined the ship just 10 days earlier.[1] The ship served in various capacities during World War I, but she was best known for reducing the voyage time from Southampton, England to Cape Town, South Africa by half in the 1890s, and for transporting many famous warriors to and from the Cape Colony during the Second Boer War. The wreck was found in 2004, 35 miles off Cape Wrath, undisturbed except for fishing nets.[3]
See also
★ Extreme points of the United Kingdom
External links
★ http://www.nlb.org.uk/ourlights/history/capewrath.htm History of Cape Wrath Lighthouse
★ trekkingvisions Information about the Cape Wrath Trek
References
1. Red Duster Merchant Navy Maratime Archive
2. Red Duster Merchant Navy Maratime Archive
3. Yorkshire diver first to see wreck for nearly 90 years, , Andrew, Robinson, Yorkshire Post, 2004
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