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Tablet, Marconi Monument, Poldhu Point, Lizard, Cornwall

Poldhu Cove on the Lizard Peninsula in southwest Cornwall, England was the site of the transmitter for the first trans-atlantic radio signal. A signal went from Poldhu Wireless Station to Guglielmo Marconi at Signal Hill in St. John's Newfoundland , Canada on December 12, 1901.

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Uploaded on December 11, 2010
Taken on April 21, 2007