Eddystone Rock, Falkland Islands

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Eddystone Rock

Falkland Islands

Location
Highest point: 144 feet
Data
Population: 0

Eddystone Rock is a rock and reef located to the north of Falkland Sound in the Falkland Islands. It is 144 feet high. There is a lighthouse here, and it is named after a more famous one of the same name off the coast of Cornwall.

History

Some of the first people to sight the rock were the crew of Louis Antoine de Bougainville's ship, who named it the "Tower of Bissy".[1]

Lieut. Lowcay during his 1837 survey of the Falkland Islands notes in his journal -

Sunday, 10 Dec ... At 8 a.m. observed the Eddystone; this remarkable rock lies off the entrance of Falkland Sound and making it from the eastward it has the appearance of a round island, and from the westward it looks like a sail.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Cawkell, p22
  2. ↑ Southby-Tailyour
  • Cawkell, Mary The History of the Falkland Islands (Anthony Nelson, Oswestry, Shropshire, England, 2001, ISBN 0-904614-55-7)
  • Southby-Tailyour, Ewen - Falkland Island Shores
  • Toponymy of Falklands

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