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Isle of Wight and nearby towns profiled in coast and culture
A descriptive tour of the Isle of Wight highlights Cowes as a yachting capital with regatta week on the Solent. East Cowes hosts shipyards and an aircraft plant while Queen Victoria’s Osborne house is noted. The piece surveys Brading Brading and Shanklin with cliffs, the Undercliff, Ventnor’s seaside similarities to Atlantic City, and Longfellow’s Shanklin fountain. It weaves in Keats and Lummis anecdotes and coastal geology from downs to chalk cliffs, ending with local legends of turquoise mines in New Mexico and Arizona.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Geographic Society
Washingdons
DP. C
Iwvnu Service
Ngland
Whit E
Southampton
Solent
Spithead
Cowes
Ragattas
Regent Street
Piccadilly
Royal Squadron
Royal Navy
Medina
East Cowes
Queen Victoria
Osborne House
Edward VII
Marlee
Isle of Wight
Greater London
Culver
Wight
Ryde
Portsmouth
Brading
John Orlander
Plymouth
Maryland
St. Mary's
Gdembridge
White Clif Bay
Culver Cliff
Slackgans Chine
Shanklin Chine
Charles F. Lummis
Southwest
Amadeo Chavez
San Mateo
New Mexico
Willy Patires
New Mexlco
Amado Chavez
United States
Mount Chatebihuit
Mexico
de Vargas
Chalchlhult
Mgain
Arizona
George Simmons
Mohave Desert
Simmons
Denver
New York
London