Odd feature names

[The Q]

Another schoolboy chortle that's not quite nautical, but does lead to a staithe off the River Waveney.

Well if you are near the broads then..


Any talk of this mooring got banned off Facebook for a while..
Technically an arm of the sea as the water has been measured as 100% salt near this point.

 

[mjcoon]

Well if you are near the broads then..
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Any talk of this mooring got banned off Facebook for a while..
Technically an arm of the sea as the water has been measured as 100% salt near this point.

I know what you mean, but there is such a thing as a saturated solution...

 

[Offshore57]

Dogger Bank........enough said

 

[Stemar]

A landfall you might prefer to avoid - la bake design trépassés, the bay of the deceased , on the Finistere coast

 

[SaltyC]

Tempt fate and anchor in Wreck Bay, at the top of Bute?

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Tempt fate and anchor in Wreck Bay, at the top of Bute?

Been there, done that!

 

[Slowtack]

Advice for entering Glandore Harbour; Avoid Adam and hug Eve.

Not forgetting Holeopen Bay and the Sovereign's B..... Whatsits....

 

[The Q]

The paps of Jura, easily seen from the sea..

 

[DanTribe]

I sometimes intrigued with the literal nature of Australian names.
What shall we call these islands Captain?"
"What's today? Whitsun. There we go"
Other examples. Christmas Creek, Dead man's Creek. Ninety Mile Beach.

 

[cpedw]

I sometimes intrigued with the literal nature of Australian names.
What shall we call these islands Captain?"
"What's today? Whitsun. There we go"
Other examples. Christmas Creek, Dead man's Creek. Ninety Mile Beach.

Is it not the case that many place names were descriptive when they were coined but the language in use has since changed while the names have been retained more or less unaltered?

 

[dunedin]

I sometimes intrigued with the literal nature of Australian names.
What shall we call these islands Captain?"
"What's today? Whitsun. There we go"
Other examples. Christmas Creek, Dead man's Creek. Ninety Mile Beach.

Of course all these places were already named, by the locals. But it was very rare for anybody to bother asking the existing names.

 

[wombat88]

Hurtmore Bottom, just off the A3

 

[dgadee]

Of course all these places were already named, by the locals. But it was very rare for anybody to bother asking the existing names.

I think in Tierra del Fuego the names have been changed to Spanish versions. The Navionics web app doesn't show much in English down there.

 

[michael_w]

In North America everything is named after the first white man to arrive or the last native to leave.

 

[newtothis]

I think in Tierra del Fuego the names have been changed to Spanish versions. The Navionics web app doesn't show much in English down there.

c.f. Puerto Williams, which used to be Puerto Luisa.

 

[dgadee]

c.f. Puerto Williams, which used to be Puerto Luisa.

Yes, but neither of them are "Port".

 

[Frank Holden]

I sometimes intrigued with the literal nature of Australian names.
What shall we call these islands Captain?"
"What's today? Whitsun. There we go"
Other examples. Christmas Creek, Dead man's Creek. Ninety Mile Beach.

Over in the north west of ‘Straya near Dampier there are the Intercourse Islands.
The discoverer said ‘would you look at all those ….. islands!!!’

 

[Frank Holden]

I think in Tierra del Fuego the names have been changed to Spanish versions. The Navionics web app doesn't show much in English down there.

 

[Frank Holden]

Well navionics should
Puerto Williams is named for the captain , a Chilean Welshman or v/v who to took the first settlers to Punta Arenas.
Meanwhile just a quick peruse turns up Isla Gordon,Pen. Hardy, Canal Beagle, Isla Dawson, Cordillera Darwin, Cabo Monmouth, Rada York, Isla Cotesworth, Narborough, Monmouth.
And that’s without going north of Estrecho de Magallanes.

 

[dgadee]

Nelson Strait now seems to be Estrecho Nelson.