Earth Views - "Dorsetshire", Wessex

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Places and sights from around the Earth, catalogued by location, including views and scenery natural and artificial, rural and urban, ugly and beautiful.

This gives a feel of what particular parts of the world are like.

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• england = .uk, Inglaterra, Angleterre, Inghilterra, Albion, 英国, Royaume-Uni, UK, 51st State = Member of the UK (United Kingdom) and thus the EU (European Union). Adjective "English" or sometimes "British" or "Brit" or "pom" or "tommy" or "limey".
• england dorset = "Dorsetshire", Wessex = County on the south coast of England, historically part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, and subsequently the setting for the bulk of the Thomas Hardy novels, now a significant tourist destination for its sunshine and coast.
• england dorset portland bill = A narrow promontory of Portland stone on the Isle of Portland: the southernmost part of Tophill.
• england dorset portland bill lighthouse = The current red-and-white painted (automated) lighthouse was refurbished in 1996, and as of June 2009 uses a 1kW metal-halide US-made lamp with a working life of about 4000h (on) which is 14 months. See Trinity House Gallery for more.

England Dorset Portland Bill lighthouse against hazy blue sky with toddler in foreground giving sense of scale 1 PAR.jpg ... england dorset portland bill lighthouse flora

england dorset portland bill

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	England Dorset Portland Bill Lighthouse DB.jpg (Earth Views) "

england dorset portland bill lighthouse flora ... (52)

• england = .uk, Inglaterra, Angleterre, Inghilterra, Albion, 英国, Royaume-Uni, UK, 51st State
• england dorset = "Dorsetshire", Wessex