Land's End

Land's End

50°4′7″N 5°42′58″O / 50.06861, -5.71611

Land's End, 1987

Land's End (Penn an Wlas en cornique) est un promontoire de Penwith, Cornouailles, Angleterre, célèbre pour être le point extrême sud-ouest de la Grande-Bretagne. La distance de Land's End à John o' Groats (le point extrême nord-est de la Grande-Bretagne) est d'environ 1 400 km.

À Land's End il y a un parc d'attractions et un aéroport (Land's End Airport), d'où l'on peut joindre Bristol, Exeter, Newquay, Southampton ou les Sorlingues. On peut également apercevoir cet archipel depuis la pointe. Lyonesse, une terre mythique mentionnée dans le cycle arthurien est censée se trouver entre Land's End et les Sorlingues.

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