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Porthloo (sometimes spelled and often pronounced Porthlow, ((コーンウォール語:Porth Logh), 'cove of the deep water inlet')) is a settlement on the island of St Mary's in the Isles of Scilly, England. It lies about half a mile northeast of Hugh Town and is a popular tourist spot with a number of guest houses and two restaurants. The only golf club on the Isles of Scilly is situated just to the north of Porthloo. The course consists of nine holes, each with two tees. The club was founded in 1904 and is open to visitors.〔(Isles of Scilly Golf Club )〕 ==Beach== Porthloo Beach faces west - there are two tidal islets called Taylor's Island and Newford Island which are to the north and south of the beach respectively. At the top of the beach is a small remnant sand dune system with the grassy area behind used for boat standing and boat building. Due to the disturbance hairy buttercup (''Ranunculus sardous''), along with other arable weeds appear here in one of its few sites on Scilly, and the only known site for wall–rue (''Asplenium ruta-muraria'') in the Isles of Scilly is just to the south. Porthloo is within an Area of Outstanding Beauty, is a Geological Conservation Review site and was designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in 1996. The site is notified for a succession of Quaternary sediments listed below with youngest at the top of the list: *Aeolian loess deposits dated to 18,000 years BP (before present) *Head deposits with breccia recognised as the type locality and known as the Porthloo Breccia. Dated to the Late Devensian 30,000 BP the pollen from organic layers indicate a tundra climate *Storm beach laid down during the Ipswichian interglacial which started 130,000 years ago and ended about 114,000 years ago. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Porthloo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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