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Ards Peninsula
The Ards Peninsula is a peninsula in County Down, Northern Ireland, on the north-east coast of Ireland. It separates Strangford Lough from the North Channel of the Irish Sea. Towns and villages on the peninsula include Donaghadee, Millisle, Portavogie and Portaferry. The large towns of Newtownards and Bangor are at the mainland edge of the peninsula. Burr Point is the easternmost point on the island of Ireland.
Ards Peninsula
Ards Peninsula
The Ards Peninsula is a peninsula in County Down, Northern Ireland, on the north-east coast of Ireland. It separates Strangford Lough from the North Channel of the Irish Sea. Towns and villages on the peninsula include Donaghadee, Millisle, Portavogie and Portaferry. The large towns of Newtownards and Bangor are at the mainland edge of the peninsula. Burr Point is the easternmost point on the island of Ireland.
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Awapuni railway station
Local GemsAwapuni railway station was a station in Kairanga County, on the Foxton Branch and, from 1908, the North Island Main Trunk in New Zealand, now in the Palmerston North suburb of Awapuni. It was beside the Mangaone Stream, near its confluence with the Kawau Stream, about 400 m (440 yd) west of Maxwells Line on the north side of Pioneer Highway. Nothing remains of the former station, except a wide verge, partly occupied by a cycleway, built in 2015.
Awapuni railway station
View pinSt Patrick's Island
Local GemsSt Patrick's Island is the most distant of three low-lying uninhabited islets off the headland of Skerries, County Dublin in Ireland. It is an island of low cliffs and lies about 1.5 km from the mainland, with vegetation consisting of grasses, brambles and other species such as hogweed.
St Patrick's Island
View pinLinton Military Camp
Local GemsLinton Military Camp is the largest New Zealand Army base and is home to the Headquarters 1(NZ) Brigade. It is located just south of Palmerston North.
Linton Military Camp
View pinRockabill Lighthouse
Local GemsRockabill Lighthouse is an active lighthouse from the 19th century on the larger of the two islands that form Rockabill. It lies around 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) off of the east coast of Skerries, County Dublin, Ireland. It is maintained by the Commissioners of Irish Lights.
Rockabill Lighthouse
View pinEngineer Corps Memorial Centre
Local GemsThe Engineer Corps Memorial Centre (ECMC) is a museum, library and chapel complex located at Linton Military Camp, south of Palmerston North, New Zealand. The centre focuses on the preservation of history and heritage of the Corps of Royal New Zealand Engineers (RNZE).
Engineer Corps Memorial Centre
View pinArds Lower
Local GemsArds Lower, alternatively known as North Ards, is a barony in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies on the northern half of the Ards Peninsula in the north-east of the county, with the Irish Sea to its east and Strangford Lough to its south-west. It is bordered by two other baronies: Ards Upper to the south; and Castlereagh Lower to the west.
Ards Lower
View pinHighbury, Palmerston North
Local GemsHighbury is a suburb of Palmerston North, New Zealand. The suburb is located northwest of Palmerston North Central (CBD). The area has the characteristics of a suburban area and had a resident population of 4,886 (2018).
Highbury, Palmerston North
View pinCreag an Leth-choin
Local GemsCreag an Leth-choin, also known as Lurcher's Crag, is a summit in Cairngorms National Park, Scotland, United Kingdom. It is 1,053 metres (3,455 ft) high.
Creag an Leth-choin
View pinStrangford Lough
Local GemsStrangford Lough is a large sea lough or inlet in County Down, in the east of Northern Ireland. It is the largest inlet in Ireland and the wider British Isles, covering 150 km2 (58 sq mi). The lough is almost fully enclosed by the Ards Peninsula and is linked to the Irish Sea by a long narrow channel at its southeastern edge. The main body of the lough has at least seventy islands along with many islets (pladdies), bays, coves, headlands and mudflats. It is part of the Strangford and Lecale Area
Strangford Lough
View pinSkerries Lifeboat Station
Local GemsSkerries Lifeboat Station is situated at Harbour Road, on Red Island, a tied island at Skerries, County Dublin, a town approximately 31 kilometres (19 mi) north of Dublin in the administrative region of Fingal, on the east coast of Ireland.
Skerries Lifeboat Station
View pinShenick Island
Local GemsShenick Island or Shenick's Island is an island that lies east of Skerries, County Dublin, Ireland. It is populated only by seals that harbour on the western side of the island and a few different species of seabirds nest there. It may be reached by boat but at low tide it may be reached by crossing a sand bank.
Shenick Island
View pinWinifreda
Local GemsWinifreda is a town in the province of La Pampa, Argentina, 50 kilometres from Santa Rosa, in the department of Conhelo.
Winifreda
View pinSkerries Harps GAA
Local GemsSkerries Harps is a Gaelic Athletic Association club based in Skerries, County Dublin, Ireland, playing Gaelic football, hurling and camogie. The club is located on the Dublin Road in Skerries with a main pitch and club house at this location. The club has just under 40 teams competing at all levels in football, hurling, camogie and ladies football. The club plays at senior level in football and camogie, intermediate level in ladies football and junior hurling.
Skerries Harps GAA
View pinCoolgreany
Local GemsCoolgreany is a village located in north County Wexford in Ireland, in the shadow of Croghan Mountain, overlooking Tara Hill in the extreme north of County Wexford.
Coolgreany
View pinSketrick Castle
Local GemsSketrick Castle is a castle situated on Sketrick Island near Whiterock, County Down, Northern Ireland. The castle is estimated to date back to the 12th century. Sketrick Castle tower-house and the passage to spring are State Care Historic Monuments in the townland of Sketrick Island, in the Ards and North Down Borough, located at grid reference: J5245 6252.
Sketrick Castle
View pinCastle Espie
Local GemsCastle Espie is a wetland reserve managed by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) on the banks of Strangford Lough, three miles south of Comber, County Down, Northern Ireland, in the townland of the same name. It is part of the Strangford Lough Ramsar Site. It provides an early wintering site for almost the entire Nearctic population of pale-bellied brent geese. The Castle which gave the reserve its name no longer exists.
Castle Espie
View pinSkerries, County Dublin
Local GemsSkerries is a coastal town in Fingal, in the north of County Dublin, Ireland. Skerries was historically a fishing port and later a centre of hand embroidery. These industries declined in the early 20th century, however, and it became both a resort town and a commuter town for Dublin 30 km (19 mi) to the south. Offshore from the town are several islands, one of which is a nature reserve, Rockabill.
Skerries, County Dublin
View pinRampside railway station
Local GemsRampside railway station was located on the Piel Branch of the Furness Railway in the Rampside area of Barrow-in-Furness, England.
Rampside railway station
View pinTorloisk House
Local GemsTorloisk House on the Isle of Mull, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, was the family seat held by the Macleans of Torloisk. The house is protected as a Category B listed building.
Torloisk House
View pinKircubbin, County Down
Local GemsKircubbin is a village and townland in County Down, Northern Ireland. The village had a population of 1,153 people in the 2011 Census.
Kircubbin, County Down
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