Qualla: The Lizard https://qualla.com/the-lizard en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/u/k/the-lizard-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: The Lizard https://qualla.com/the-lizard The Lizard: Introduction https://qualla.com/the-lizard/ Photo credit David Johnson [1], CC BY-SA 3.0. The name is a beautiful piece of accidental zoology. 'The Lizard' is most likely a corruption of the Cornish Lys Ardh - 'high court' - the original meaning long since dissolved in English ears that heard a reptile instead. That the peninsula happens to be made largely of serpentine, a mineral once thought to resemble snakeskin, is pure coincidence. The Cornish were probably calling it something else first: Bridanoc, from Britannakon, 'the British one,' a name that survives in the modern Predannack on the west coast. Whatever you call it, the place is the southernmost piece of mainland Britain, and it has been catching events out of the air and out of the Atlantic for as long as anyone has been counting.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/u/k/the-lizard-wp/gbuk-the-lizard-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full The Lizard: A Slice of the Mantle https://qualla.com/the-lizard/ Photo credit Jürgen Matern, CC BY-SA 2.5. Geologists call the Lizard a complex. What they mean is the best-preserved exposed ophiolite in the United Kingdom - a piece of ancient ocean floor, including the top of the Earth's mantle, that has been shoved up onto the continental crust. The peninsula is, in literal geologica...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/u/k/the-lizard-wp/gbuk-the-lizard-a-slice-of-the-mantle.mp3 0:06 2 full The Lizard: The Graveyard of Ships https://qualla.com/the-lizard/ Photo credit Pldms at English Wikipedia, Public domain. The seaways round the Lizard were known historically as the Graveyard of Ships. The first Lizard light was thrown up by Sir John Killigrew in 1619 at the cost of '20 nobles a year' for 30 years; King James I considered charging vessels for the privilege of passing it, the funding...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/u/k/the-lizard-wp/gbuk-the-lizard-the-graveyard-of-ships.mp3 0:06 3 full The Lizard: The First Wireless Signal https://qualla.com/the-lizard/ Photo credit yvette ansell, CC BY-SA 2.0. In 1900 a young Italian engineer named Guglielmo Marconi rented rooms at the Housel Bay Hotel and leased a plot 'in the wheat field adjoining the hotel.' What he built there - the Lizard Wireless Telegraph Station, a wooden hut on the cliff west of the Lloyds Signal Station - is ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/u/k/the-lizard-wp/gbuk-the-lizard-the-first-wireless-signal.mp3 0:06 4 full The Lizard: The Cornish Rebellion and the Discovery of Titanium https://qualla.com/the-lizard/ Photo credit Kernow Skies, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Lizard's history is not all sea and salt. In 1497 the village blacksmith Michael Joseph - 'An Gof,' the smith - led the Cornish Rebellion from St Keverne, protesting the punitive taxes that Henry VII had levied to fund his war against the Scots. Joseph and his fellow leader T...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/u/k/the-lizard-wp/gbuk-the-lizard-the-cornish-rebellion-and-the-discovery-of-titaniu.mp3 0:06 5 full