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Land's End ((コーンウォール語:Penn an Wlas) or ''Pedn an Wlas'')〔(An English-Cornish Glossary in the Standard Written Form ) (gives both ''Penn an Wlas'' and ''Pedn an Wlas'')〕 is a headland and holiday complex in western Cornwall, England. It is the most westerly point of mainland Cornwall and England, is within the Penwith peninsula and is about eight miles (13 km) west-south-west of Penzance at the starting and finishing point of the A30 road.〔Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 203 ''Land's End'' ISBN 978-0-319-23148-7〕 ==Geography== The actual Land’s End or Peal Point, is a modest headland compared with nearby headlands such as Pedn-men-dhu overlooking Sennen Cove and Pordenack, to the south. The present hotel and tourist complex is at Carn Kez, 200 m south of the actual Land’s End. Land's End has a particular resonance because it is often used to suggest distance. Land's End to John o' Groats in Scotland is a distance of by road and this ''Land's End to John o' Groats'' distance is often used to define charitable events such as end-to-end walks and races in the UK. Land's End to the northernmost point of England is a distance of by road.〔http://www.landsend-to-johnogroats.co.uk/home/beginning/planning/how-far-is-it-from-land-s-end-to-john-o-groats〕 There are two varieties of granite represented at Land's End. Adjacent to the hotel the granite is coarse-grained with large phenocrysts of orthoclase, sometimes more than in length. To the north, at the First and Last House, there is a finer grained granite with fewer and smaller phenocrysts, and the different granites can be seen from a distance by the smoother weathering of the finer variety. The granite dates to 268–275 million years ago of the Permian period. The contact zone between the Land's End granite pluton and the altered ″country rocks″ is nearby and the Longships Lighthouse, offshore, is built on the country rock.〔 Land's End is a popular venue for rock climbers. 〔http://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/crag.php?id=211〕 The Longships, a group of rocky islets are just over offshore, and together with the Seven Stones Reef and the Isles of Scilly which lie approximately southwest — are part of the mythical lost land of Lyonesse, referred to in Arthurian literature. The area around Land's End has been designated part of an Important Plant Area, by the organisation Plantlife, for rare species of flora.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.plantlife.org.uk/wild_plants/important_plant_areas/lands_end )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Land's End」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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