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Article: Building the bell rock lighthouse.
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- Australian Mathematics Teacher
- Article date:
- June 22, 2005
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Ever since the first mariners sailed off the east coast of Scotland the Bell Rock has claimed many vessels and countless lives. Also known as the Inch Cape Rocks they lie 18 km off the coast at Arbroath. Located near the mouth of the Firth of Forth and its important shipping ports these dangerous rocks cover an area some 440 m long and 90 m wide. Submerged for all but up to four hours a day it is said that a floating bell was moored at the rocks as early as the sixteen century in an effort to warn unwary mariners.
The fierce North Sea storms can blow passing boats onto the rocks. At high tide, these rocks are covered to a depth of 3.5 metres of water. In calm ...
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Article: KAYAK MARATHON TO BELL ROCK.
Arbroath Herald (Arbroath, Scotland);
September 7, 2007 ;
490 words
... ... from Arbroath Harbour, heading for the Bell Rock lighthouse, 11 miles offshore. Wayne ... Arbroath Herald: "Our journey to the Bell Rock started at 4.30 a.m. When we arrived ... eased off three or four miles from the Bell Rock where we arrived at 8.45 a.m ...
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