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Stokes Bay is a community (Canadian Post code N0H 0A9), in the Municipality of Northern Bruce Peninsula on Bruce Peninsula (which partly encloses Georgian Bay), and the eastern shore of Lake Huron, in Ontario.
La Perouse was the scene of the most arduous rescue in New Zealand's climbing history in 1948, where Ruth Adams was injured and had to be carried on a stretcher over the summit and through deep gorges to the West Coast road. [4] She was a member in a climbing party including Harry Ayres, Edmund Hillary and Mick Sullivan. [5]
Stokes Bay is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the north coast of Kangaroo Island overlooking Investigator Strait about 162 kilometres (101 miles) south-west of the state capital of Adelaide. [2] [3] Its boundaries were created in March 2002 for the “long established name” and includes the Stokes Bay Shack ...
The rescue operation, with staffers laying down on the rocks and sticking their arms below, took approximately 30 minutes. The seal was defensive during the rescue, Stokes noted.
Although the completion of the Stokes Bay Lines in 1860 had rendered the Browndown Batteries obsolete, there was a need for a battery to protect the deep water anchorage off Browndown Point and the new Browndown Battery was constructed for two 12.5-inch R.M.L. guns [6] on the site of the old Browndown battery West, paid for under the Imperial ...
(KRON) — Three people were rescued at the Sonoma County coast Monday after a powerful wave swept them off their feet near Bodega Bay. Two of the individuals were hospitalized after the dramatic ...
Stokes Bay (grid ref.) (50.782982, -1.163868) is an area of the Solent that lies just south of Gosport, between Portsmouth and Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire. There is a shingle beach with views of Ryde and East Cowes on the Isle of Wight to the south and Fawley to the south west.
Fort Gilkicker is a historic Palmerston fort built at the eastern end of Stokes Bay, Gosport, Hampshire England to dominate the key anchorage of Spithead. It was erected between 1863 and 1871 as a semi-circular arc with 22 casemates, to be armed with five twelve-inch guns, seventeen ten-inch guns and five nine-inch guns. The actual installed ...