The Scares are a group of rocky islets in Luce Bay, off the coast of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The largest, Big Scare, lies roughly 12 kilometers southwest of Port William and about the same distance east of the Mull of Galloway, with a smaller rock to its west and three companion islets called the Little Scares about a kilometer to the northeast. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Protected StatusInternational Treaty Protected Area 1 Connections
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Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to discipline Geomorphology via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.
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1. UNEP-WCMC and IUCN: Protected areas at the coordinates of The Scares, World Database on Protected Areas
UNEP-WCMC and IUCNname_eng and desig_engQuote, name_eng and desig_eng
"name_eng": "Luce Bay and Sands", "desig_eng": "Marine Protected Area (OSPAR)"
The Scares (Wikipedia)
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The Scares or the Scare Rocks are rocky islets in Luce Bay off the coast of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
Wikidata: The Scares
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