Shipping Forecast Compass Rose – Filey, UK
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dtrebilc
N 54° 12.484 W 000° 17.069
30U E 677091 N 6010077
This compass rose not only has 8 compass points but arrows pointing to the sea area around the coast of Britain used in the Shipping Forecast.
Waymark Code: WMENDH
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 06/18/2012
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The rose is situated on the promenade at Filey and has a small fountain in the middle of it.
“The Shipping Forecast is a BBC Radio broadcast of weather reports and forecasts for the seas around the coasts of the British Isles. It is produced by the Meteorological Office (Met Office) (
visit link) and broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.” (
visit link)
There are 31 sea areas around the cost of Great Britain and the arrows on the rose show the names of the areas. The areas were originally named in 1949, but there have been modifications since.
In one of my picture there is an area call Finisterre. This name changed in 2002 to Fitzroy (the founder of the Met Office) to avoid confusion with the Spanish peninsula called Finisterre.