Odd feature names

[dgadee]

"Sure as Death Bank" up the Tay.


Fife Place-name Data :: Sure As Death Bank

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Fullastern Rock

 

[Dellquay13]

Where the ebb tide from the Milford Haven joins the Bristol Channel ebb over the St Ann’s shoal, against the prevailing winds…

 

[Roberto]

Death coast Costa da morte - Galicia

Gulf of sorrows Golfo de penas - Chile

 

[mjcoon]

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[Roberto]

A question: along the Atlantic/Channel French coast a huge number of maritime physical features bear names with rural / agricultural etymology, people were historically tied to the land and when they went to sea for fishing they used farming terms, today we have rocks/shoals/capes named The cow, The pig, The butter pot, The big sow, etc etc, is it the same in the UK?

 

[Skysail]

There are the Cow and Calf in St Mary’s Harbour. And a Bull in Start Bay. There is also a Chicken Rock somewhere off the Isle of Man, with its own lighthouse.

 

[dgadee]

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40 years! No wonder young people don't bother with the BBC.

 

[Dellquay13]

A question: along the Atlantic/Channel French coast a huge number of maritime physical features bear names with rural / agricultural etymology, people were historically tied to the land and when they went to sea for fishing they used farming terms, today we have rocks/shoals/capes named The cow, The pig, The butter pot, The big sow, etc etc, is it the same in the UK?

There you go, some Celtic coast names.
I’ve just noticed the yacht symbol, I think it’s the least hospitable place on the seaward side of Skomer island. (Shudder in horror)

 

[Biggles Wader]

40 years! No wonder young people don't bother with the BBC.

Young people these days have no sense of humour.

 

[dgadee]

Young people these days have no sense of humour.

Maybe not, but I wouldn't want to be the BBC in 20 years when the old codgers who listen to rubbish on the wireless die off.

 

[dgadee]

Scapa Flow.

 

[johnalison]

Not quite nautical, but in Wivenhoe we have Cutthroat lane, one of several I believe.

 

[Neeves]

Trouser Point in Tasmania.

 

[RunAgroundHard]

... There is also a Chicken Rock somewhere off the Isle of Man, with its own lighthouse.

My uncle was lighthouse keeper on the chicken rock when it went on fire. Many years later after it was automated my brother and I went out with him on a check trip. We jumped off the boat, climbed up the ladder and got to see the inside of the lighthouse from bottom to top. At the time he was head lighthouse keeper at Douglas Head, where we were staying with him and my aunt over the summer.

 

[RunAgroundHard]

Buttock Point and the Maids of Bute.
Two woman waiting on their fisherman husbands who had perished at sea. They turned to stone they waited so long. Not sure why they waited near Buttock Point.

 

[mjcoon]

Not quite nautical, but in Wivenhoe we have Cutthroat lane, one of several I believe.

Probably in memory of some highwayman... Friends of mine live in Scratchface Lane, probably named before the advent of tractor-driven flails for "trimming" hedges...

 

[Frank Holden]

Those of you who read Ransome’s ‘Secret Water’ may have missed Cunnyfur Ooze close nor-east of Hamford Water

 

[Thresher]

A question: along the Atlantic/Channel French coast a huge number of maritime physical features bear names with rural / agricultural etymology, people were historically tied to the land and when they went to sea for fishing they used farming terms, today we have rocks/shoals/capes named The cow, The pig, The butter pot, The big sow, etc etc, is it the same in the UK?

Three islands off Dursey Island in South West Cork, I think in descending order of size. The Bull, The Cow and The Calf.

 

[alan_d]

Three islands off Dursey Island in South West Cork, I think in descending order of size. The Bull, The Cow and The Calf.

Two rocky islets at the north end of the Sound of Mull, near Auliston Point - Big Stirk and Little Stirk. (Stirk is a dialect word for yearling bullock or heifer.)