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They lie some 1.5 mi (2.4 km) to the north-west of, and about 250 ft (76 m) above, the fishing village of Mevagissey. The gardens are 6 mi (9.7 km) by road from the town and railway station of St Austell and are principally in the civil parish of St Ewe, although elements of the eastern gardens are in Mevagissey parish. [3]
The neighbouring station at Fowey was provided with a motor lifeboat in 1928 which proved capable of covering the area around Mevagissey so the station was closed in 1930. The old boat house was later turned into an aquarium. [12] [13] Mevagissey lighthouse was built in 1896 to mark the south breakwater that protects the small harbour.
Mevagissey Lifeboat Station was the base for a Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) lifeboat at Mevagissey in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It was in use from 1869 until 1930. It was in use from 1869 until 1930.
The Ohio & Indiana Railway Company was incorporated in 1903. [3] During the same year, a 3-mile (4.8 km) line was built from the New York Central Railroad station in the nearby city of Angola to the southern tip of Lake James. Following difficulties in acquiring rolling stock, additional financial backers joined the company and renamed it the ...
It forms part of a standard weather station and holds instruments that may include thermometers (ordinary, maximum/minimum), a hygrometer, a psychrometer, a dewcell, a barometer, and a thermograph. Stevenson screens may also be known as a cotton region shelter, an instrument shelter, a thermometer shelter, a thermoscreen, or a thermometer screen.
Mounds State Park is a state park near Anderson, Madison County, Indiana featuring Native American heritage, and ten ceremonial mounds built by the prehistoric Adena culture indigenous peoples of eastern North America, and also used centuries later by Hopewell culture inhabitants.
The lowest point in the state of Indiana is located on the Ohio River in Posey County, where the Wabash River flows into it, and Posey County's highest point (590 feet/180 meters ASL) is a small rise 1.6 miles (2.6 km) SSW from Saint Wendel, near the county's southeast corner. [8] Posey county lies at the tripoint of Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois.
A Synoptic automatic weather station. Synoptic weather stations are instruments which collect meteorological information at synoptic time 00h00, 06h00, 12h00, 18h00 and at intermediate synoptic hours 03h00, 09h00, 15h00, 21h00 (UTC). Every weather station has assigned station unique code by WMO for identification.