Tusker Rock
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "about". Template:Use dmy dates Tusker Rock (Template:Langx) is a rock in the Bristol Channel, about Script error: No such module "convert". west of Ogmore-by-Sea, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. It is suggested that it takes its name from Tuska the Viking, a Dane whose fellow Vikings semi-colonised the Vale of Glamorgan.[1] Alternatively, the name might derive (as with the similarly named Tuskar Rock, Ireland[2] and various other Tusker Rocks in the Bristol Channel and Milford Haven/Skomer area) simply from the Old Norse tu (large) skar (rock).
It is fully visible only at low tide, and was formerly a notorious hazard for ships.
Today, the waters around Tusker Rock are a popular diving location.
References
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External links
- Virtual Tour at low tide
- Tusker Rock's shipwrecks graveyard captured in art project
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