Talk:Cape Cornwall

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 * During the winter months there are few visitors and many take advantage of the steep, gravel covered car park to practice handbrake turns.

as I don't think that it is encyclopeadic. I also corrected the most westerly in mainland Britain claim.--JBellis 19:46, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Heinz connection
Wasn't the Cape owned by the Heinz company (or one of the family) and donated to The National Trust? I think the placque at the base of the chimney says something about this... I no-one knows I will ask a cousin who lives in the area.LessHeard vanU 23:23, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Why is it a 'cape'?
The article currently says "A cape is the point of land where two bodies of water meet". Should this be changed to something like "A cape is usually the point of land where two bodies of water meet, but Cape Cornwall has no special geographic significance."? AFAICT, Cape Cornwall is entirely surrounded by the Celtic Sea, and does not form the end of any kind of sea border. St George's Channel doesn't start until much further north.

Was it called a "Cape" because 200 years ago people thought it was the western most point of mainland England? This would suggest that the definition of the word "cape" should be a bit more generic. How about "A cape is a headland that is (or was) considered to have some particular geographical significance, such as being the point of land where two bodies of water meet, or the point where there is a marked change in the trend of a coastline ... and Cape Cornwall was probably given that name due to a belief that it was the western most point of mainland Cornwall"?

Open4D (talk) 09:13, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

"One mile from the Cape is the westernmost school on the British mainland, Cape Cornwall School".
This is incorrect.

Cape Cornwall School article 50°07′31″N 5°41′00″W. Mallaig High School https://www.highland.gov.uk/directory_record/521727/mallaig_high_school 57°00’03.5”N 5°49’53.4”W (personally from Google Earth). In longitude, at the latitude of Cape Cornwall School; the centre of Mallaig High School is about 10.595 km or 6.583 miles further west than the centre of Cape Cornwall School (i.e. from the latitude and longitude of Cape Cornwall School due west to the longitude of Mallaig High School). Arisaig Primary School https://www.highland.gov.uk/directory_record/521568/arisaig_primary 56°54’55.8”N 5°50’56.3”W (personally from Google Earth). In longitude, at the latitude of Cape Cornwall School; the centre of Arisaig Primary School is about 11.845 km or 7.360 miles further west than the centre of Cape Cornwall School. Mallaig Primary School is also further west than Cape Cornwall School. Used Charles Karney's Online rhumb line calculations using the RhumbSolve utility https://geographiclib.sourceforge.io/cgi-bin/RhumbSolve "RhumbSolve is accurate to about 15 nanometers (for the WGS84 ellipsoid)" or 0.000015 of a millimetre or 0.00000059 of an inch. In an email to me from Charles Karney: "The accuracy of 15 nanometers that I quote is for paths up to half-way round the earth." "RhumbSolve performs rhumb line calculations". "The path with a constant heading between two points on the ellipsoid at (lat1, lon1) and (lat2, lon2) is called the rhumb line (or loxodrome)". "NOTE: the rhumb line is not the shortest path between two points; that is the geodesic and it is calculated by GeodSolve." Mallaig and Arisaig are further west than Land's End.

Sulasgeir (talk) 23:53, 5 January 2019 (UTC)