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The gatehouse at St Donat's Castle. UWC Atlantic is located at St Donat's Castle, a 12th-century castle near the town of Llantwit Major on the South Wales coast, overlooking the Bristol Channel. The castle has been continuously inhabited since it was first built.
In its early years, the United World College of the Atlantic and the UWC International Office were funded by the donations and grants from the Ford Foundation, the Dulverton Trust, and the Bernard Sunley trust, in addition to the British and West German governments, and many smaller funders; the site for Atlantic College, St Donat's Castle, was ...
Atlantic College Lifeboat Station was an Inshore lifeboat station based at Atlantic College, which is located on the Bristol Channel coast of South Wales, at St Donats, near Llantwit Major. The station opened in 1963, shortly after the school had been launched the previous autumn, as one of the first nine experimental inshore lifeboat stations ...
A view of the UWC-USA campus. American mogul Armand Hammer's The Armand Hammer Foundation purchased the property to establish a United World College in the United States in 1981. Major renovations of existing buildings preceded the school's opening in the fall of 1982, an event that was attended by King Charles III , then Charles, Prince of ...
19 September – Atlantic College opens its doors for the first time at St Donat's Castle, marking the birth of the pioneering United World College educational movement. [ 7 ] 26 October – Richard Thomas and Baldwins 's new steelworks at Llanwern near Newport , is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom .
UWC Atlantic College St. Donat's Castle, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, CF61 1WF UWC Atlantic College. X Alpha Rigid Inflatable Boat The Rigid-Hulled Inflatable Boat (RIB) design developed at UWC Atlantic College in South Wales is in service with numerous maritime rescue organisations and navies worldwide. The unique design combines a rigid ...
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Li Po Chun UWC was founded in 1978. The first college, UWC Atlantic College , had been established in 1962 by the German educationalist Kurt Hahn to promote international understanding and peace. Other United World Colleges have since been established in North America, Europe, Africa, Latin America, and elsewhere in Asia [ 4 ]