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Whiddy Island (Irish: Oileán Faoide) is an
island near the head of
Bantry Bay in Ireland. It is
approximately 5.6 km (3.5 mi) long and 2.4 km (1.5 mi)...
- The
Whiddy Island disaster, also
known as the
Betelgeuse incident or
Betelgeuse disaster,
occurred on 8
January 1979,
around 1:00 am, when the oil tanker...
- Bay from Dunm**** Bay. The main
islands in the bay are Bere
Island and
Whiddy Island. Bere
Island is
located near the
entrance to the bay. On the north...
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Shanagarry Shanbally Shanballymore Sheep's Head
Sherkin Skibbereen Timoleague Togher Tower Union Hall
Upton Waterfall Watergr****hill
Whiddy Whitegate Youghal...
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southernmost point, with
views of
Fastnet Rock and
Lighthouse Kinsale Whiddy Island and
Whiddy Island view on R572 road The Wild
Atlantic Way has had a significant...
- Air
Station Whiddy Island was a
seaplane station operated during the last year of
World War I and
commissioned 4 July 1918.
Located on
Whiddy Island in...
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Starting Life in
Another World Betelgeuse, oil
tanker destro**** in the 1979
Whiddy Island Disaster,
Ireland USS Betelgeuse, a U.S.Navy
shipname and list of...
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former courthouse in
Wolfe Tone Square.
Sheltering the head of the bay is
Whiddy Island, site of a
large oil terminal,
originally owned by Gulf Oil. On 8...
- by the
explosion of a
Total tanker, the M/V Betelgeuse, in
January 1979 (
Whiddy Island disaster) and it was
never fully reopened. The
Irish government took...
- semi-defunct
Irish State-owned
company which owned and
operated the
Whiddy Island Terminal on
Whiddy Island and
Whitegate refinery at Whitegate, both in County...
