Qualla: Isles of Scilly https://qualla.com/isles-of-scilly en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:10 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Isles of Scilly https://qualla.com/isles-of-scilly Isles of Scilly: Introduction https://qualla.com/isles-of-scilly/ On the night of 22 October 1707, a British admiral named Sir Cloudesley Shovell sailed his fleet north from Gibraltar in thickening weather and, by his own dead reckoning, believed himself safely out in open water. He was wrong by miles. Just before eight in the evening, his flagship HMS Association struck the rocks off the Isles of Scilly and sank in three or four minutes. Four ships piled onto the cliffs. At least 1,450 men died, including the admiral himself. It remains one of the worst maritime disasters in British history, and it happened because nobody at the time could measure longitude at sea. The Scilly Isles, scarcely more than granite teeth showing above the Atlantic, were where the British Empire learned what ignorance of position truly costs.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/e/isles-of-scilly-wp/gbge-isles-of-scilly-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Isles of Scilly: Granite Teeth in the Atlantic https://qualla.com/isles-of-scilly/ The Isles of Scilly are an archipelago of five inhabited islands and roughly 140 islets and rocks, scattered 45 kilometres off Land's End. They are the same Early Permian granite that forms the spine of Cornwall, an exposed crest of the Cornubian batholith pushed up out of the se...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/e/isles-of-scilly-wp/gbge-isles-of-scilly-granite-teeth-in-the-atlantic.mp3 0:06 2 full Isles of Scilly: The Warmest Place in Britain https://qualla.com/isles-of-scilly/ Scilly sits on the same latitude as Winnipeg, Canada, where January routinely drops below minus twenty Celsius. Here, frost is a curiosity and snow makes the news. The North Atlantic Drift, an arm of the Gulf Stream, runs warm water past these granite outcrops and gives them the ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/e/isles-of-scilly-wp/gbge-isles-of-scilly-a-war-that-forgot-to-end.mp3 0:06 4 full Isles of Scilly: Birds, Boats, and the Sea That Took Them https://qualla.com/isles-of-scilly/ Because Scilly sticks far out into the Atlantic, it is the first European landfall for North American vagrant birds blown across the ocean. Twitchers, the obsessive bird chasers of British ornithology, descend on the islands every autumn hoping for a yellow-billed cuckoo or a buf...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/e/isles-of-scilly-wp/gbge-isles-of-scilly-birds-boats-and-the-sea-that-took-them.mp3 0:06 5 full Isles of Scilly: The Land of One Daffodil a Year https://qualla.com/isles-of-scilly/ Almost all the freehold land on the islands belongs to the Duchy of Cornwall, the estate that funds the heir to the British throne. Augustus Smith leased the entire archipelago from the Duchy for twenty thousand pounds in 1834 and styled himself Lord Proprietor. The Dorrien-Smith...

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