Overseas Names
The Isle of Wight has given its names to many parts of former colonies, most notably Isle of Wight County in Virginia founded by settlers from the island in the 17th century. Its county seat is a town named Isle of Wight.
Other notable examples include:
Isle of Wight - an island off Maryland, USA
Dunnose Head West Falkland
Ventnor, Cowes on Philip Island, Victoria, Australia
Carisbrook, Seaview, Victoria, Australia
Ryde, New South Wales, Australia
Shanklin, Sandown, New Hampshire, USA
Ventnor City, New Jersey, USA
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Famous quotes containing the word names:
“And even my sense of identity was wrapped in a namelessness often hard to penetrate, as we have just seen I think. And so on for all the other things which made merry with my senses. Yes, even then, when already all was fading, waves and particles, there could be no things but nameless things, no names but thingless names. I say that now, but after all what do I know now about then, now when the icy words hail down upon me, the icy meanings, and the world dies too, foully named.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)