Qualla: Teän https://qualla.com/tean 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/s/tean-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Teän https://qualla.com/tean Teän: Introduction https://qualla.com/tean/ Photo credit Mike Knell, CC BY-SA 2.0. Teän is small enough to walk across in fifteen minutes and remote enough that nobody lives there now, but the island has been working for people for almost as long as people have been in the Scillies. Romano-British field boundaries surface from the sand at extreme low tides. Sixteen early Christian graves lie under the east wall of a vanished chapel. A solitary man was reported living in a ruined house here in 1652, and a family called Nance turned this island into a small industrial operation - burning kelp to make sodium carbonate for English glassworks - for about 150 years afterwards.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/s/tean-wp/gbgs-te-n-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Teän: A Granite Tor in a Drowned Field https://qualla.com/tean/ Photo credit Chris Walpole, CC BY-SA 2.0. Geologically, Teän is the eastern end of an old upland - a series of granite tors connected by low-lying ground covered in glacial till and outwash gravels. Glacial erratics cluster on the north coast beaches, and the island has been designated a Geological Conservation Review si...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/s/tean-wp/gbgs-te-n-a-granite-tor-in-a-drowned-field.mp3 0:06 2 full Teän: St Theona's Chapel https://qualla.com/tean/ Photo credit Mike Knell, CC BY-SA 2.0. On the western slope, near the modern landing at West Porth, there are the ruins of an early Christian chapel possibly dedicated to a saint called Theon - sometimes recorded as Theona. Sixteen graves have been excavated under the east wall of the chapel, suggesting the church was...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/s/tean-wp/gbgs-te-n-st-theonas-chapel.mp3 0:06 3 full Teän: The Nance Kelp Burners https://qualla.com/tean/ Photo credit John Rostron, CC BY-SA 2.0. A Parliamentary survey of 1652 reported one man living in a ruined house on Teän. By 1684 there was a proper thatched cottage between East Porth and West Porth, and it belonged to a Mr Nance, who is credited with introducing kelp burning to the Scilly Isles. Kelp burning, the pro...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/s/tean-wp/gbgs-te-n-the-nance-kelp-burners.mp3 0:06 4 full Teän: A Pansy and a Marsh Harrier https://qualla.com/tean/ Photo credit David Lally, CC BY-SA 2.0. Teän was notified as a Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1971 and the last full assessment, in September 2009, found the island in favourable condition. Among the rarities behind the dunes at East and West Porth grows the dwarf pansy, Viola kitaibeliana, one of Britain's rar...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/g/s/tean-wp/gbgs-te-n-a-pansy-and-a-marsh-harrier.mp3 0:06 5 full