Qualla: Langness Peninsula https://qualla.com/langness-peninsula en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/langness-peninsula-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Langness Peninsula https://qualla.com/langness-peninsula Langness Peninsula: Introduction https://qualla.com/langness-peninsula/ Photo credit Finn Bjorklid, Public domain. The old Manx name for this peninsula was Oaie Ny Baatyn Marroo, the Graveyard of the Lost Ships, and for centuries it earned the name. Before there was a lighthouse, when fog rolled in off the Irish Sea the only warning to vessels was a party of men on the shore blowing a cow's horn. The sound carried half a mile on a good day. Langness is a long, thin, low rib of rock extending two kilometres south from the Isle of Man's coast, and from the air it looks like the island is sticking out an inquiring foot into the sea. It is the southernmost tip of the Manx mainland, the place where you have run out of land, and the people who built things here have always built them with the wrecks in mind.

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/langness-peninsula-wp/gcse-langness-peninsula-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Langness Peninsula: An Island That Forgot It Was an Island https://qualla.com/langness-peninsula/ Photo credit Glyn Baker, CC BY-SA 2.0. Langness was once a true island. The sea ran behind it. Over geological time, longshore drift from the prevailing currents along Castletown Bay heaped sand and shingle into a tombolo, a slender bar of deposited material, until at last the island was tied to the mainland. The litt...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/langness-peninsula-wp/gcse-langness-peninsula-an-island-that-forgot-it-was-an-island.mp3 0:06 2 full Langness Peninsula: The Potato Grave https://qualla.com/langness-peninsula/ Photo credit RuthAS, CC BY 3.0. In 1832 a ship carrying Irish workers across to the Isle of Man for the potato harvest was lost off Langness with all hands. Thirty-two bodies washed ashore. By Manx custom, anyone found drowned was buried where they came to land, behind the nearest hedge, so the people of the pa...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/langness-peninsula-wp/gcse-langness-peninsula-the-potato-grave.mp3 0:06 3 full Langness Peninsula: Dreswick Point and the Light https://qualla.com/langness-peninsula/ Photo credit Shaun Ferguson, CC BY-SA 2.0. Langness Lighthouse, built on Dreswick Point at the southern tip in 1880, finally gave the wreckers their notice. The light is still there, still operating, the white tower visible for miles. Before it was built the toll of vessels lost on these rocks was steady and known: tradin...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/langness-peninsula-wp/gcse-langness-peninsula-dreswick-point-and-the-light.mp3 0:06 4 full Langness Peninsula: What Lives Here Now https://qualla.com/langness-peninsula/ Photo credit Padyer at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Langness is a serious migration stopover. In spring and autumn, the peninsula hosts wheatears, whinchats, redstarts and the occasional rarity blown off course; in winter, brent geese and purple sandpipers work the shoreline. Bottlenose dolphins and harbour porpoises feed in the w...

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