Land's End

Land's End is a rocky headland near the southwestern tip of mainland Great Britain, in Cornwall, England. It is a prominent coastal landmark and a popular destination.

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Longships Lighthouse: A lighthouse on the Longships rocks off Land's End in Cornwall. It marks dangerous offshore rocks just beyond the headland.
Cornubian batholith: A large granite body beneath much of Cornwall and Devon, formed during the Variscan orogeny. Its granite underlies the rocky landscape around Land's End.
Land's End Landmark: A visitor attraction at Land's End featuring amenities, exhibits, and a famous signpost. It is the developed destination that draws many visitors to the headland.
John o' Groats: A village in northern Scotland commonly treated as the northeastern endpoint of mainland Britain. It forms the opposite endpoint in the famous Land's End-to-John-o'-Groats journey.
Sennen Cove: A coastal village and sandy beach north of Land's End in Cornwall. Its beach lies immediately north of the headland and is a popular surfing spot.
Variscan orogeny: A mountain-building event that formed during the collision of ancient continental plates in the late Paleozoic. It produced the geological structures and granites associated with Cornwall.
Coastal erosion: The wearing away of shorelines by waves, currents, weathering, and mass movement. Wave action continually reshapes the exposed cliffs around Land's End.
British Isles: An archipelago off the northwestern coast of continental Europe, including Great Britain and Ireland. Land's End is often presented as a symbolic extremity of the archipelago’s largest island.
Cape Cornwall: A headland on Cornwall’s Atlantic coast, northwest of Penzance. It is a nearby landmark sometimes mistaken for mainland Britain’s westernmost point.
Granite: A coarse-grained igneous rock formed when magma cools slowly beneath Earth's surface. Granite forms the exposed rocks of the Land's End headland.