# Zone Point

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{{Short description|Coastal feature in Cornwall, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}
{{more citations needed|date=February 2015}}
thumb|Zone Point, seen from the coastal footpath

'''Zone Point''' ({{langx|kw|'''Sawan Hir'''}}, meaning ''long chasm'')<ref>[Weatherhill, Craig](/source/Weatherhill%2C_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](/source/Roseland%2C_Cornwall) [peninsula](/source/peninsula) extending into [Falmouth Bay](/source/Falmouth_Bay) near [St Mawes](/source/St_Mawes) in [Cornwall](/source/Cornwall), England, United Kingdom at {{gbmapping|SW8430}}.
<ref>Ordnance Survey ''One-inch Map of Great Britain; Truro and Falmouth, sheet 190''. 1961</ref>
thumb|left|Seen from Porthbeor Beach
It is approximately {{convert|500|m|yd|abbr=off}} east-southeast of the [St. Anthony's Lighthouse](/source/St._Anthony's_Lighthouse) on [St Anthony Head](/source/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 [Atlantic grey seal](/source/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](/source/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](/source/River_Fal) by [Baptista Boazio](/source/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>

==References==
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{{Headlands of Cornwall}}

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Category:Headlands of Cornwall

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