File:Roundhead of St. Catherine's breakwater - geograph.ci - 214.jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file (469 × 640 pixels, file size: 269 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents
Description

Roundhead of St. Catherine's breakwater. Work began on the breakwater in 1847 when Britain was fighting the Napolini wars and was completed with the construction of the large round end in 1855.
It was constructed by tipping a huge mound of rubble - a bund - on to the sea floor off the end of a wooden trestle.
On to this the walls of dressed stone blocks with rubble infill was built.
The plan was to have this northern breakwater accompanied by a southern one to create a huge "refuge" harbour from which the Royal Navy could challenge the French Fleet as soon as they left harbour.
By 1855 Britain and France had become allies against the Russians and the harbour was no longer needed.
The roundhead is some 606m out to sea and, after 150 years of buffeting by the sea, is beginning to subside.
It is thought the bund was not large enough and cavities have formed in the rubble inside the roundhead.
<a title="http://www.ports.org.uk/port.asp?id=139" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ports.org.uk/port.asp?id=139">Link</a><img style="padding-left:2px;" alt="External link" title="External link - shift click to open in new window" src="http://s0.channel.geographs.org/img/external.png" width="10" height="10"/>

<a title="http://www.jersey-harbours.com/news/Posters%20-%201-13.pdf" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.jersey-harbours.com/news/Posters%20-%201-13.pdf">Link</a><img style="padding-left:2px;" alt="External link" title="External link - shift click to open in new window" src="http://s0.channel.geographs.org/img/external.png" width="10" height="10"/>
Date
Source From channel-islands.geographs.org; transferred by User:oxyman using geograph_org2commons.
Author Bob Embleton
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike license 2.0
Camera location49° 13′ 19.65″ N, 2° 00′ 38.38″ W  Heading=22° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo


w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
Attribution: Bob Embleton
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current11:05, 12 May 2010Thumbnail for version as of 11:05, 12 May 2010469 × 640 (269 KB)File Upload Bot (Magnus Manske) (talk | contribs){{Information |Description=Roundhead of St. Catherine's breakwater. Work began on the breakwater in 1847 when Britain was fighting the Napolini wars and was completed with the construction of the large round end in 1855.<br /> It was constructed by t

You cannot overwrite this file.

The following page uses this file:

File usage on other wikis

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Roundhead_of_St._Catherine%27s_breakwater_-_geograph.ci_-_214.jpg&oldid=466029770"