Lizard Point, Cornwall to discover more about the local rocks. The first sighting of the Spanish Armada on mainland Britain was off Lizard Point at 3 pm on 29 July 1588. This was one of the greatest invasion fleets in history and consisted of 120 ships armed with over 1,000 cannon and with 29,000 men on board. The Battle at the Lizard, a naval battle, took place off The Lizard on 21 October 1707. The bulk coaster carrier MV "Ardgarry" (1957) was lost in a heavy storm, in over 30 ft (9m) high waves, off Lizard Point on 29 December 1962. All 12
Southerly Buster Southerly Buster A Southerly Buster is the colloquial name of an abrupt southerly wind change in the southern coastal regions of New South Wales and Victoria, Australia which approaches from the southeast mainly in a hot day, bringing in cool, usually storm-laden conditions, and a dramatic temperature drop, thus ultimately replacing and relieving the prior hot conditions. Marking the boundary between hot and cool air masses, a southerly buster is often represented by a roll-up cloud perpendicular to the coast, which appears from the south and coexist with the wind change, though normally there is little visual signal of the