The Isles of Scilly are a small archipelago off the southwestern tip of Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom. One of the islands, St Agnes, lies more than four miles further south than Lizard Point, the southernmost point of the British mainland, and holds Troy Town, the UK's southernmost inhabited settlement. The archipelago had a population of about 2,100 at the 2021 census, concentrated mainly on St Mary's, and has held its own local authority, the Council of the Isles of Scilly, since 1890.
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The Isles of Scilly (, SIL-ee; Cornish: Syllan) are a small archipelago in Cornwall, England, approximately 45 km (28 mi) south-west of Land's End. One of the islands, St Agnes, is over four miles (six kilometres) further south than the most southerly point of the British mainland at Lizard Point, and has the southernmost inhabited settlement in Cornwall and the UK, Troy Town.
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All the islands of Scilly are all composed of granite rock of Early Permian age, an exposed part of the Cornubian batholith.
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All the islands of Scilly are all composed of granite rock of Early Permian age, an exposed part of the Cornubian batholith.
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