Les Platons
| Les Platons | |||
| Bailiwick of Jersey | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Les Platons | |||
| Jersey | |||
| Summit: | 485 feet 49°14’52"N, 2°6’18"W | ||
Les Platons is the highest point of Jersey and of its Bailiwick. It is not a grand mountain but the hill reaches a respectable 485 feet above sea level. The hill is located in the parish of Trinity.
The hill of Les Platons is a little way inland of the north coast of the island. Nearby are Bonne Nuit Bay, St John's Bay, the cave of La Houle all leading up to Sorel Point, the most northerly point on the island. The fair waterfall of Les Mouriers is nearby.
On the top of the hill stand television transmitters[1] and a radar station.[2] The BBC, in the latter part of the Cold War, commissioned a number of protected control centres for their major transmitter sites, with hardened bunkers indented to withstand a nuclear attack, with blast and fallout protection. The radio relay and transmitter site at Les Platons was one of the last to be completed, and was brought on line in 1993 (somewhat after the Cold War had ended).[3]
Climbing les Platons popular. Bouley Bay Hill is the venue for the National and International Hill Climbs.
References
Outside links
- Les Platons, Jersey, Channel Islands, Planet Ware.