2024-01-15

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2024-01-15 02:50 pm

Postcard of the Day



All of today's Isle of Wight views are in (or near?) Shanklin, which our map card of the other day tells me is on the southest coast.
 

A "chine" (that's Shanklin Chine on the left, just above) is:
  -- a backbone, especially that of an animal as it appears in a cut of meat;
  -- a cut of meat containing all or part of the backbone; or
  -- a mountain ridge or arête.

An "arête" is term in geology for "
a sharp-crested serrate ridge separating the heads of opposing valleys (cirques) that formerly were occupied by Alpine glaciers".

Finally, the Crab Inn:


Can we infer that there are crabs to be crabbed in waters near Shanklin?