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{{Short description|Coastal feature in Cornwall, England}}
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[[Image:Zone Point2.jpg|thumb|Zone Point, seen from the coastal footpath]]

'''Zone Point''' ({{langx|kw|'''Sawan Hir'''}}, meaning ''long chasm'')<ref>[[Weatherhill, Craig]] (2009). ''A Concise Dictionary of Cornish Place-Names''. Westport, Co. Mayo: Evertype. {{ISBN|9781904808220}}; p. 18</ref> is the southernmost extremity of the [[Roseland, Cornwall|Roseland]] [[peninsula]] extending into [[Falmouth Bay]] near [[St Mawes]] in [[Cornwall]], England, United Kingdom at {{gbmapping|SW8430}}.
<ref>Ordnance Survey ''One-inch Map of Great Britain; Truro and Falmouth, sheet 190''. 1961</ref>
[[Image:Zone Point1.jpg|thumb|left|Seen from Porthbeor Beach]]
It is approximately {{convert|500|m|yd|abbr=off}} east-southeast of the [[St. Anthony's Lighthouse]] on [[St Anthony Head]]. The cliffs make the beach between Zone Point and St Anthony Head inaccessible from land and the small bay is the site of many [[grey seal|Atlantic grey seal]] sightings; Atlantic grey seal pups can be seen on this beach from the headland and the sea.

The top of Zone Point is pasture with scrubby slopes. The [[South West Coast Path]] marks the transition between the two ecotypes.

The origin of the name Zone Point first appears in the 1597 map of the [[River Fal]] by [[Baptista Boazio]] as ''Savenheer, or the long coved point''.<ref name="Boazio map">{{cite journal|last1=Jeffery|first1=Henry|title=A Map of the River Fal and its Tributaries from a survey made in 1597, by Baptista Boazio|journal=Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall|date=1886|volume=9|issue=1|page=167}}</ref>

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