Cornwall Cornwall Cornwall (; ) is a county in South West England in the United Kingdom. The county is bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar which forms most of the border between them. Cornwall forms the westernmost part of the South West Peninsula of the island of Great Britain. The furthest southwestern point of the island is Land's End; the southernmost point is Lizard Point. Cornwall has a population of and covers an area of . The
Southerly Buster southerly's arrival. Southerly busters occur about 32 times each year on the coast of southeastern Australia, with variable strength, usually in spring and summer. Although southerly busters are oftentimes associated with NSW and Victoria, they would also betide the east coast of Tasmania, New Zealand, Argentina and Chile. They are known as ‘backdoor fronts’ in North America, and ‘Spanish plumes’ in Europe. On hot afternoons in the late nineteenth century, before the days of radio, the Sydney Observatory would fly a flag bearing the letters "JB" to indicate that the southerly buster had reached Jervis Bay, about 150 km to