St Michael's Mount, off the coast of Marazion, Cornwall, England (@ Jason Hawkes/Corbis)

St Michael's Mount, off the coast of Marazion, Cornwall, England (@ Jason Hawkes/Corbis)

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• Ancient Greek geographer Pytheas is said to have paid a visit here in the fourth century BC.""Making this one of the earliest identified locations in western Europe
• Does this island remind you of an equally fairytale location off the coast of France?""The two places are historically connected
• Not really the ideal place to be when a tsunami hits, is it?""Amazingly, that is exactly what happened here in 1755
• We\re celebrating the 1894 formation of The National Trust by visiting one of their most popular properties.""It\s a British institution and a TV star