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Nigel (died 2018) was an Australasian gannet [1] who lived on Mana Island, off the coast of the city of Porirua in New Zealand. For most of his time there he was the only gannet on the island, and for this reason was nicknamed "no mates" Nigel and the "world's loneliest seabird".
The biggest northern-gannet colony is on Scotland's Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth; in 2014, this colony contained some 75,000 pairs. [8] Sulasgeir off the coast of the Isle of Lewis , St Kilda , Grassholm in Pembrokeshire , Bempton Cliffs in the East Riding of Yorkshire , Sceilig Bheag , Ireland, Cape St Mary's , Newfoundland, and Bonaventure ...
Sketch map showing Carbis Bay within St Ives Bay Carbis Bay from St Ives. Carbis Bay (Cornish: Karrbons, meaning "causeway") is a seaside resort and village in Cornwall, England. It lies 1 mile (1.6 km) southeast of St Ives, on the western coast of St Ives Bay, on the Atlantic coast. [2] The South West Coast Path passes above the beach.
The Gannet Islands Ecological Reserve is a remote wildlife refuge in the Labrador Sea. The Gannet Islands are a group of islands approximately 40 km northeast of Cartwright . The islands are named after the British survey ship HMS Gannet .
The Swiss naturalist Conrad Gessner gave the northern gannet the name Anser bassanus or scoticus in the 16th century, and noted that the Scots called it a solendguse. [4] The former name was also used by the English naturalist Francis Willughby in the 17th century; the species was known to him from a colony in the Firth of Forth and from a stray bird that was found near Coleshill, Warwickshire.
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Trethurgy is a village in the parish of Treverbyn, [1] Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.It is about two miles northeast of St Austell. [2] Carne Farm, Trethurgy is the birthplace of Silvanus Trevail, a president of the Society of Architects and the architect of many well known Cornish hotels such as the Headland Hotel, Newquay and the Carbis Bay Hotel, Carbis Bay.