Qualla: Rosevear https://qualla.com/rosevear en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:10 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/7/rosevear-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Rosevear https://qualla.com/rosevear Rosevear: Introduction https://qualla.com/rosevear/ Photo credit Richard Knights, CC BY-SA 2.0. Rosevear is 0.63 hectares of flat-topped granite in the Western Rocks of Scilly, and you are not allowed to land on it. The Duchy of Cornwall owns it, the Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust manages it, and storm petrels nest there in numbers that make the rest of the island a closed door for human feet. But for almost three hundred years, Rosevear was one of the strangest pieces of inhabited land in Britain - a wave-pummelled rock, a kilometre and a half from the nearest other island, that humans kept moving back onto. In 1709 it was a salvage camp for the wreck of HMS Association. In 1784 it received the body of an English opera singer and her infant son, both drowned on a packet ship at the edge of the rocks. In the 1840s and 1850s it housed the masons and engineers building Bishop Rock lighthouse, and they swore they heard music in the night. The lighthouse-builders left in 1858. The opera singer's ghost, the local story says, never did.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/7/rosevear-wp/gbg7-rosevear-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Rosevear: The Rock Itself https://qualla.com/rosevear/ Photo credit Mike Knell, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Western Rocks of Scilly are a 3-kilometre chain that runs from Round Rock of Crebawethan in the north down to Pednathise Head in the south, the southernmost land in the United Kingdom. Rosevear sits about midway down the chain, the largest of the group, with a relatively flat...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/7/rosevear-wp/gbg7-rosevear-the-rock-itself.mp3 0:06 2 full Rosevear: Ann Cargill https://qualla.com/rosevear/ Photo credit Mike Knell, CC BY-SA 2.0. On 24 February 1784, the East India Company packet ship Nancy ran onto the rocks near Rosevear in heavy weather. Most of the people aboard drowned. Among the dead was Ann Cargill, a celebrated English opera singer and actress in her mid-twenties, returning home from a performing ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/7/rosevear-wp/gbg7-rosevear-ann-cargill.mp3 0:06 3 full Rosevear: Salvage and the Lighthouse Camp https://qualla.com/rosevear/ Photo credit Mike Knell, CC BY-SA 2.0. Two decades after the Association disaster of 1707, the Royal Navy was still trying to recover what it could from the wrecks scattered through the Western Rocks. In 1709 and 1710, the Herbert salvage expedition used Rosevear as a base camp, working the wreck of the Association an...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/7/rosevear-wp/gbg7-rosevear-salvage-and-the-lighthouse-camp.mp3 0:06 4 full Rosevear: The Birds That Stayed https://qualla.com/rosevear/ Photo credit Mike Knell, CC BY-SA 2.0. Today Rosevear is one of the most important storm petrel colonies in England. The Seabird 2000 survey counted 57 occupied nest sites; by the 2006 repeat survey, that number had risen to 129, making Rosevear the third-largest European storm petrel colony in the country. The island...

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