Hook Peninsula information

The Hook Peninsula is a peninsula in County Wexford, Ireland. It has been a gateway to south-east Ireland for successive waves of newcomers, including...

Recreation Area. Geologically, Sandy Hook is a large sand spit or barrier spit, the extension of a barrier peninsula along the coast of New Jersey, separated...

The Hook Lighthouse (Irish: Teach Solais Rinn Duáin; also known as Hook Head Lighthouse) is a building situated on Hook Head at the tip of the Hook Peninsula...

The Three Sisters (Rivers Nore, Suir and Barrow). It is part of the Hook peninsula and is adjacent to the historic townland of Loftus Hall. It is situated...

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Loftus Hall is a large country house on the Hook peninsula, County Wexford, Ireland. Built on the site of the original Redmond Hall, it is said to have...

south of County Wexford, Ireland. The hill is the highest point on the Hook peninsula, with an elevation of 268.5 metres (881 ft). Villages around Slieve...

Hook Peninsula and primarily dates to the late 15th or early 16th century. Slade Castle is located in the village of Slade, near the tip of the Hook Peninsula...

Angeles (ICAO: KNOW, FAA LID: NOW) is located at the end of the Ediz Hook peninsula in Port Angeles, Washington. The Coast Guard's presence in Port Angeles...

Gurtins is a small townland between Saltmills and Stonehouse on the Hook Peninsula in County Wexford, Ireland. "Context: Gurtins, County Wexford". catalogue...

headland called Creaden Head The eastern limit is Hook Head, marked by the Hook Lighthouse, on the Hook peninsula. Raes, Veronique (8 May 2018). "15 Best Things...

small peninsula within the Hook peninsula where the Barrow, Suir and Campile rivers meet, close to the Slieve Coillte, the highest point on the Hook peninsula...

Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland. Thomas C. Jack. Billy Colfer (2004). The Hook Peninsula, County Wexford. Cork University Press. ISBN 978-1-85918-378-6. John...

The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut. The perpetrator, Adam Lanza, fatally shot his mother...

A sickle, bagging hook, reaping-hook or grasshook is a single-handed agricultural tool designed with variously curved blades and typically used for harvesting...

scattered throughout rural County Wexford. An ogham stone was found on the Hook Peninsula in the 19th century. Ogham stones have also been found elsewhere in...

fort. The Army needed a place to test its own new weapons. The Sandy Hook Peninsula met the Army's needs for an experimental testing area for heavy ordnance...

Kitsap Peninsula (/ˈkɪtˌsæp/) lies west of Seattle across Puget Sound, in Washington state in the Pacific Northwest. Hood Canal separates the peninsula from...

vulnerable and the British government erected three Martello towers on the Hook Peninsula to reinforce the existing Fort at Duncannon. During the 19th century...

are no longer intact. The British built two Martello towers on the Hook Peninsula to protect the fort near Duncannon, County Wexford and the entrance...

northwestern part of the Olympic Peninsula, have traditionally also used wooden hooks to catch halibut. Their hooks were made out of a long single piece...

1957–58, because Hallett Station on Seabee Hook was established at the north end of the peninsula. The peninsula is an elongated shield volcano complex similar...