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Isle of Wight: tags: [geography]

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Definition:

a county and the largest and second-most populous island in England. It is in the English Channel, between 2 and 5 miles off the coast of Hampshire, separated by the Solent. The island has resorts that have been holiday destinations since Victorian times, and is known for its mild climate, coastal scenery, and verdant landscape of fields, downland and chines.

The island has been home to the poets Swinburne and Tennyson and to Queen Victoria, who built her much-loved summer residence and final home Osborne House at East Cowes.

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“[...] I wired to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight.”

Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Five Orange Pips

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Rum: Truth is, I don't know the way to the Cape of Good Hope anyway.

Blackadder: Well, what were you going to do?

Rum: Oh, what I usually do. Sail 'round and 'round the Isle of Wight 'til everyone gets dizzy. Then head for home.

BBC. Blackadder, season 2: Potato

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Every summer we can rent a cottage in the Isle of Wight; if it's not too dear (we can scrimp and save)

The Beatles. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: When I'm Sixty-Four

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I seem to see my native country as an immense football ground, with a net across the Isle of Wight and another in the neighbourhood of John o’ Groat’s, and the entire population stamping their feet on the cold, cold ground and hoarsely roaring at the bounces of a gigantic football.

Arnold Bennett. Paris Nights and Other Impressions of Places and People (1913)

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Glubbdubdrib, as nearly as I can interpret the word, signifies the island of sorcerers or magicians. It is about one third as large as the Isle of Wight, and extremely fruitful: it is governed by the head of a certain tribe, who are all magicians.

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)