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Portland, Isle of (peninsula) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 50 33 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 50.5500 decimal degrees |
| Long: 002 26 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -2.4333 decimal degrees |
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Note: A rocky limestone peninsula connected to the mainland by Chesil Beach, a thin stretch of bank; famous for stone quarrying and for its naval base. |
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| Portland, Isle of (preferred,C,V,English,U)
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| Isle of Portland (C,V,display,English,U)
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| Portland (C,V)
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| Portland Isle (NA,V,English,U)
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| Porland (H,V,Anglo-Saxon-P,U,N)
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............ | recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 |
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Dorset (county) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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| peninsula (preferred, C) |
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| naval base (C) |
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| quarrying center (C) |
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