Crim Rocks ( "little reef")
is a small group of uninhabited islands in the
Isles of Scilly
The Isles of Scilly ( ; ) are a small archipelago off the southwestern tip of Cornwall, England. One of the islands, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly, St Agnes, is over farther south than the most southerly point of the Great Britain, British mainla ...
,
England
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United Kingdom
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.
The Crim Rocks are the most westward of the archipelago's
Western Rocks,
[ Andrew Breeze, (2007), ''Cornish toponyms: Crim Rocks, Darite, Perranuthnoe, Port Isaac, and Treverva''. Celtica Vol. 25, page 2] therefore making them the westernmost point of England. They are approximately north of
Bishop Rock,
[Great Britain, Hydrographic Dept, (1891), ''Sailing directions for the west coast of England'', page 26] and about southwest of
Zantman's Rock. The name may be
cognate
In historical linguistics, cognates or lexical cognates are sets of words that have been inherited in direct descent from an etymological ancestor in a common parent language.
Because language change can have radical effects on both the s ...
with the
Middle Welsh
Middle Welsh (, ) is the label attached to the Welsh language of the 12th to 15th centuries, of which much more remains than for any earlier period. This form of Welsh developed directly from Old Welsh ().
Literature and history
Middle Welsh is ...
"crimp" meaning "shin, ridge, or ledge."
The most conspicuous of the Crim Rocks is the Peaked Rock.
At least thirty ships are known to have been
wrecked on the Crims.
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See also
* List of shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly
*List of extreme points of the United Kingdom
This is a list of the extreme points of the United Kingdom: the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location. Traditionally the extent of the island of Great Britain has stretched "from Land's End to John o' Groats" ...
References
Uninhabited islands of the Isles of Scilly
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