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Poldhu Point

Wireless station history fans will certainly be familiar with the importance of the Lizard. The Marconi Monument, a small granite obelisk, overlooks the Atlantic Ocean on the site that on December 12, 1901, played host to the transmission that paved the way for long-distance communication. Guglielmo Marconi himself stayed in Poldhu in 1900, and built one of the largest wireless stations in the world, the pylons and aerials of which survived until 1937. His Morse signal, the letter ‘s’ repeated three times, was received in St John’s, Newfoundland, quelling the doubts of the many who said that radio waves could not bend round the earth’s curvature. On the site of his station stands the Marconi Centre, a purpose-built exhibition centre and HQ of the Poldhu Amateur Radio Club.