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Bathymetric feature northwest of Scotland and Ireland

The Rockall Trough (Scottish Gaelic: Clais Sgeir Rocail) is a deep-water bathymetric feature to the northwest of Scotland and Ireland, running roughly from southwest to northeast, flanked on the north by the Rockall Plateau and to the south by the Porcupine Seabight. At the northern end, the channel is bounded by the Wyville-Thomson Ridge, named after Charles Wyville Thomson, professor of zoology at the University of Edinburgh and driving force behind the Challenger Expedition. At the southern end, the trough opens into the Porcupine abyssal plain. The Rockall Basin (also known as the Hatton Rockall Basin) is a large (c. 800km by 150km) sedimentary basin that lies beneath the trough. Both are named after Rockall, a rocky islet lying 301.4km west of St Kilda.

Features of the Rockall Plateau have been officially named after features of Middle-earth in the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, e.g. Eriador Seamount, Rohan Seamount, Gondor Seamount, Fangorn Bank, Edoras Bank, Lorien Knoll, Isengard Ridge.[1]

In February 2000, the RRS Discovery, a British oceanographic research vessel sailing in the Rockall Trough encountered the largest waves ever recorded by scientific instruments in the open ocean, with a SWH of 18.5 metres (61ft) and individual waves up to 29.1 metres (95ft).[2]

The nature of the crust beneath the Rockall Trough has long been a matter of debate. Originally thought to be oceanic crust it is now generally considered to be highly stretched continental crust, although some groups of researchers continue to favour either oceanic or transitional style crust, particularly at the southern end of the basin.

The Rockall Basin forms part of a chain of highly extended Mesozoic rift basins between the Charlie-Gibb and Senja Fracture Zones, that includes; the Faroe-Shetland Basin, the Mre Basin, and the Vring Basin. There are indications that the Rockall Basin developed within an earlier rift system, which is likely to be of Triassic to Middle Jurassic in age, by analogy with the nearby Slyne-Erris Basins. The age of the main rift phase in the Rockall Basin is strongly debated, with Late Jurassic, Early-, Mid- and Late Cretaceous all being suggested.

One of the features of the Rockall Trough is the Anton Dohrn Seamount. It lies 600 metres (2,000ft) beneath the surface, rising 1,500 metres (4,900ft) from the surrounding seabed. The plateau formed approximately 55 million years ago, a continental fragment formed between Greenland and Europe when the ancient continent of Laurasia was split apart by plate tectonics.[3] The Rockall Islet is the highest point of the plateau, rising 21 m above sealevel. It is made of a type of peralkaline granite.

To date, there has been comparatively little drilling to explore for oil and gas within the Rockall Basin and only two discoveries have been made, Benbecula in the northern UK Rockall (Shell originally Enterprise Oil) and Dooish in the northern Irish Rockall (Shell originally Enterprise Energy Ireland). The discoveries show that, at least locally, there is a working petroleum system. Rights to exploit these resources are disputed between the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands (a possession of Denmark). This topic is addressed in Rockall Bank dispute.

The area supports cold water coral colonies and carbonate mound fields such as the Logachev Mounds; the trough supports a rich deep sea fish population.[5] There are also unusual aggregations of deep-sea sponges, in particular the encrusting sponge and bird's nest sponge. A range of other species are found amongst the sponges beds, which are considered biodiversity hotspots. For the bird's nest sponge associated species include ascidians, Foraminifera, polychaetes and burrowing anemones, whilst for the encrusting sponge beds species such as anemones, ascidians, crinoids and ophiuroids are found. The area is also home to brittlestars: filter feeders which live on the seabed.[6]

In 2014 an area of 1,256 square kilometres (485sqmi) of the Hatton-Rockall Basin was declared a Nature Conservation Marine Protected Area.[4] The MPA is designated a Category IV protected area by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.[7]

Coordinates: 5500N 1400W / 55.000N 14.000W / 55.000; -14.000

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Expedition Radio Operator

Adrian "Nobby" Styles will be joining the expedition to operate a HAM radio on Rockall island. Originally from Dartford, Kent, Nobby first became interested in amateur radio during his teen years tinkering with a CB radio and soon became addicted to the hobby.

As far as ham radio broadcasts go, rockall is the pinnacle. It is perhaps the rarest and most difficult of places to broadcast from in the whole world, and he is extremely excited to be able to broadcast from the rock, as are the amateur radio community and iota chasers!

Nobby will land with the team on the first day, and for 24 hours will be answering transmissions from radio operators around the world, before granting them their own custom rockall post card (or qsl card) which nobby has kindly designed for us, in exchange for donations for our great causes.

For the amatuer radio community this opportunity is practically once in a lifetime With only a couple of Operations to Rockall and with less than 400 claimed QsL's.

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University of Galway Maree Mens Basketball team will be aiming to continue their unbeaten start to the 2022/23 Superleague when they host current champions Garveys Tralee Warriors this Saturday in the Kingfisher Sports Centre in the University at 7pm.Its been a great opening to the campaign for Charlie Crowleys men, with an away victory over Griffith College Templeogue at the National Basketball Arena first day out backed up with a home win over Flexachem KCYMS Killorglin last weekend.In contrast, last seasons winners from Tralee have had mixed results, including a shock away loss to Belfast Star last Saturday.Its a homecoming of sorts for Tralee player Dre Jackson (pictured) who returns to face his former Galway teammates, who he soldiered alongside as they came agonisingly close to making a Cup final last season.Much interest will also centre around Kieran Donaghy who is set to line out for the Warriors.Star is probably best known for his All-Ireland winning All-Star Gaelic Football performances with Kerry, but theres no doubting his basketball ability and he will be one to watch this weekend.For Maree, there are many excellent players too, with their new-look squad already gelling well this season.Spaniard Rodrigo Gmez was the top scorer last time out, while fellow International signings Jarett Haines (USA) and Joe Junior Mvuezolo (England) led the charge on opening day.The team will be led by Galway men Eoin Rockall and Stephen Commins, with the latter set for a busy weekend as he is set to line out for Oranmore Maree in their Galway Hurling Championship tie against Turloughmore at Kenny Park on Sunday.

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Ornithologist and artist Roger Tory Peterson had at least four publishers turn him down before Houghton Mifflin agreed to give his book proposal a modest try. In 1934, the publisher printed 2,000 copies of a manual with mostly black-and-white illustrations titled "A Field Guide to the Birds, Including All Species Found in Eastern North America."

The first printing sold out within two weeks, launching Peterson's career as the most celebrated American ornithologist of the modern era. The four editions of "A Field Guide to the Birds" published during his lifetime sold more than 5 million copies.

Peterson also wrote or edited nearly 50 other books, including a series of Houghton Mifflin natural history guides numbering 21 volumes known as the Peterson Field Guide Series. In the opinion of many, his most engaging book is "Wild America: The Record of a 30,000-Mile Journey Around the Continent by a Distinguished Naturalist and his British Colleague," published in 1955. The "British colleague" was James M.C. Fisher. It relates the now-legendary 1953 trek from Newfoundland's coastline to the Great Smokies and South Florida, then down into Mexico and, finally, up the West Coast to Alaska made by two of the 20th century's most competent field naturalists.

Fisher was a broadcaster, naturalist and writer. A leading authority on the natural history traditions of his country, he made more than 1,000 radio and TV broadcasts on nature-related topics, especially ornithology. His writing and broadcasting played a role in the growth of interest in bird-watching in the United Kingdom during the 20th century, similar to Peterson's impact in the United States. He died in a car crash in 1970.

In the prologue to "Wild America," Peterson noted that since Fisher had escorted him on field trips throughout "wild Europe," he told his colleague: "If you come to America, I will conduct you around the continent and you will see a more complete cross section of wild America than any other Englishman, and all but a few North Americans, have ever seen."

"Wild America" is the record of that journey woven together from their combined notes. It was made in Peterson's "new, shiny green Ford country sedan, seventeen feet long, loaded with gear." Despite Fisher's sharp wit, which could be barbed at times, and Peterson's self-admitted temper, they got along well. For anyone interested in natural history, "Wild America" is a compelling book. Here is Fisher's awed description as if he were an Alice lost in a wonderland of his first venture into a cove hardwood forest deep in the Smokies:

"April rained itself out in the small hours of the first of May and the morning sun, shining down from blue sky, sparkled in thousands of raindrop lenses. Quickly the forest dried as we drove up the middle prong of the Pigeon River, swollen with rain from the Tennessee slopes of those great wooded hills, LeConte and Chapman. Led by Arthur Stupka and his wife and the Glidden Baldwins, who are authorities on the big trees of the Smokies, we left the cars near the meeting of two streams which had cut down to staircases of smooth, pebble-worn rock, all overhung by the forest hemlocks, and giant shiny-leaved rhododendrons. It was a steamy valley, cushioned with moss and full of the good smell of rotting wood. To our north rose Greenbrier Pinnacle, to our south all 6,430 feet of Mount Chapman. As we took the trail up the Ramsay Prong the valley closed in, and the forest grew bigger, and wilder. ...

"Near the beginning of the trail a tulip tree towered higher than any tree I had even seen in Britain; and from then on big trees of at least six kinds thrust up from the tangled forest floor for about a hundred feet or more. The forest track wound under them, through dense undergrowth; rhododendrons of enormous size formed dark jungles through which our uphill trail became a leafy tunnel.

"Every now and then we paused like dwarfs at the foot of some great bole: a Canada hemlock the big Tsuga Canadensis 8 feet or more across at the roots, and five at man height; a tremendous silverbell; a pair of yellow buckeyes, each nearly 100 feet high; vast smooth-trunked beeches; the biggest maple tree I had ever seen, a sugar maple; and a 70-foot wild pin-cherry, the grandfather of all cherry trees, whose top was lost in the green canopy and whose lowest branch, a great horizontal arm, must have been 40 feet above us . . .

"Leaving the great forest was like coming out of a dream; not a sinister dream, for there is nothing terrifying in the grandeur of Great Smoky's deciduous woodland. It is just big beyond belief, and benign in its bigness. I thought it was the most beautiful forest I had ever seen."

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It only takes 30 seconds. Just a half-minute into Gilla Bands Most Normalthe chaotic Irish noisemaker's brand new and brightest, relatively speaking, LP to dateon opening track The Gum, you know that the quartet has lost none of the ferociousness that established it, making them one of the most thrilling bands of its generation. In fact, The Gum is such a little studio-concocted handful that as the group known until last year as Girl Band prepares to head out on a European tour, its proving to be one of the more challenging to pull off live. It was written in kind of a haphazard way, says bassist, engineer, and preeminent Gilla Band jokester Daniel Fox, with a laugh. All the measures of everything are very unintuitive, and its just a really jerky kind of song. Getting the sounds isnt too hard, but then stitching it all together is challenging. And weve had to come up with some clever ways of being able to some of the effects and things live.

Post-punk, indie rock, art rock, post-Goth, and most frequently, noise rock: all those genre names have been affixed to Gilla Band, but they all struggle to do justice to the sound of this singular outfit. On their first EP, 2012s France 98, released under that previous band name, they toyed with a more traditional chord-driven indie-garage sound. But Gilla Band found its footing by forging a bolder, left-leaning template on the breakout 2014 single Lawman, a ferocious cover of Blawans Why They Hide The Bodies Under My Garage?, and their electrifying 2015 debut album Holding Hands With Jamie. They melded pummeling rhythms, hypnotic grooves, buzzsaw guitars, and all manner of magnificently abrasive sounds and effects with a singer-reciter-shouter-screamer like no other. It was sensational, and they built on the feat again four years later with The Talkies, a denser and more claustrophobic second full-length.

I have now been lucky enough to interview Gilla Band for each of their albums. The day we speak, over Zoom, its three-quarters of the group: Fox, guitarist Adam Duggan, and front man/vocal force of nature Dara Kiely, all in great spirits and eager to discuss Most Normal. (I would later email with drummer Adam Faulkner.) Theres one word they all come back to in contrasting the new album with its predecessors. We wanted the record to be really direct in its sound, says Fox. Part of that directness came from writing and recording in the more intimate confines of their rehearsal spacethe very room from which Duggan is Zooming inand Sonic Studios in central Dublin, where Fox works as an engineer.

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Most Normal was written and recorded in 2020 and 2021. And you know what that means. For the Dubliners, the early months of Covid lockdown meant about a million Zoom meetings, recalls Fox. It was really just an excuse to hang out and have a couple cans. And wed talk about music, but really vague, more talking musical ideas as opposed to concrete ones. One of those early ideas was to make a record contextualized in dreams, something that, once the lads finally were able to meet in person, didnt really come to fruition, though Kiely says he manifested something of a dream state on Backwash a driving banger replete with Kielys trademark wordplayhis deftness with rhyming couplets, or just seemingly free-association references is one of Gilla Bands signatures. Kiely is nothing if not a wordsmith, even when venturing into the goofy. The title Most Normalan excerpt from a lyric in the track I Was Awaymight seem a strange one for a band that is anything but conventional in its sounds or experimental impulses, but, as Kiely says, it was the best of a bad bunch. It was kind of getting close to the deadline, he recalls.

And while the band didnt impose any parameters on the new album as they did with The Talkies, on which they wrote all songs in the key of A and Kiely completely avoided pronouns in all of his lyrics, the pandemic allowed them the time to be more exploratory than ever. Duggan adds that there are plenty of new sounds and textures throughout the LP. We used this self-oscillating noise synth box, and its all over the record, he explains. Theres a lap steel on lots of tracks, theres organs, stuff like that. And then there was little production-y things, like at the start of The Weirds, on Gushie or Pratfallthey all have this like sidechain going on, where it all sort of sucks into the kick.

Gilla Band has had no shortage of challenges in its history, due in part to Kielys struggles with mental health. In the press run before Jamies 2015 releaseincluding in an interview with me for Live Nation TVhe was remarkably, refreshingly candid about a dark psychotic break hed had in which he imagined himself a god. (His encounter with a therapist is memorably, mind-blowingly recounted in the song The Last Riddler.) If that sort of opennessat once discomforting and darkly funnyis more commonplace now, even among male musicians, it wasnt then, and certainly, Kiely says, not within his family, though he adds that they have come a long way since. But riding high on the acclaim of their debut, Gilla Band had to cut short its 2015 tour in the interest of his wellness. There was another similarly truncated tour in 2017, which left the guys, by 2018, if not back at square one then certainly without much of the momentum theyd recently built. All of which, of course, paled in importance to the well-being of a friend and bandmate. But Gilla Band was something of a blank slate with an unknown future when they set about working on The Talkies, a record whose opening track Prolix, meant to record Kielys breathing exercises, a part of his practice of mindfulness meditation, ended up capturing a real-time panic attack. The group wisely supported The Talkies gingerly, with only limited live shows. One bright spot? They could get started on a third album sooner. Then of course, Covid happened. So, yeah: challenges. You cant win.

From left: lan Duggan, Adam Faulkner, Dara Kiely, and Daniel Fox.

Or can you? Time can be a healer, and in the case of a band that labors over its songwriting, make for an even more interesting LP. Gilla Band say they are blessed to have in Rough Trade and its founder Geoff Travis, a longtime champion of the band, a label that doesnt sweat them about meeting a deadline. A couple of things immediately stand out about Most Normal. Only one song, centerpiece The Weirds, is longer than five minutesthis from a band known for routinely sailing past that time mark. While they say that wasnt deliberate, its noticeable, as is a more lighthearted touch. On summer single Eight Fiver, Kiely, in very Kiely fashion, rails about spending all my money on shit clothes, rattling off a string of shop names that most Americans might have to Google, with the exception of JCs where he got my bootcut jeans. Im very grateful for a lot of things in my life, Kiely explains. But Ive never thought I looked cool dress-sense wise. And Ive been asked a few times, So what are you shittiest clothes? and um, there was a time whenmy brother was older than me by like ten years. And hes also shorter than me. So I inherited all of his clothes. There would be like, flared jeans that hit my shin, or like a t-shirt that had like a dog on it, just stupid crap. So Ive never really been confident in that way, and I thought it would be interesting to try and do that in a track.

Self-deprecation, thy name is Dara Kiely. For years, knocking himself about his looks, style, hair, weight, confidence, you name it, has been his lyrical muse, though its done in such a wry and witty way that you cant help but chuckle. There was the matter of erectile dysfunction in early single Da Bom Bom, and fan favorite Pears For Lunch immortalized the line I look crap with my top off. On Most Normal its the clothes. Binliner Fashion, a song that ends up in a near primal scream while Duggan wires out and Faulkner rides the snare and hi-hat, actually begins with Kiely musing on dressing in plastic bags and not being able to wear hats. There are dentistry troubles, haircut slags, and a verse on giving up on general hygiene, financial savings, and exercising. He is relentlessly hard on himself, and his self-image was done no favors, he says, by Covid quarantine. I can really go into my head a lot and think about things and take it out on myself, he admits. A lot of it was written when I was in lockdown, and I also turned 30 during then. I just kind of reflected on my life, cause I had a lot of time to think. To be clear, this is a very good-looking guy, who could probably pass for a cousin of Ronan Farrow. But he was hardly a natural born front man. As a kid he was painfully shy, the type to go red in a second and get made fun of for it. Eventually he came out of his shell, but, as he says, pandemic isolation had him fold back inwards. Im kind of creeping out of that now, he adds. He still feels like hes not much of a pure singer, but thats almost beside the pointbetween a droll and deadpan spoken register; a shout tinged with just enough angst; a lilting falsetto thats used sparingly but effectively; and a full-bore scream that could peel the paint off a venues walls, its one of the most extraordinary vocal arsenals I know of, in any genre.

Kielys also found it in himself to be more open than ever on one track. Nowhere on Most Normal does he excel more than on closer Post Ryan, which must be given its own shout-out. It was a tough song to finish, says Fox, one they might not have even been able to complete earlier in the bands history. The song is an electro-stomper, with an infectious beat taken from the old A Flock of Seagulls chestnut I Ran, overlaid with an insistent self-oscillator buzz, Duggan grinding and chiming on guitar, and Kiely, with the most warts-and-all honest lyric hes ever written, less about bad haircuts than actual feelings. Im in between breakdowns / Im constantly in recovery he flatly states. Took it all for granted / Gonna end up homeless.

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Theres also tough assessment of his penchant for witty, non-sequitur lyrics: I hid behind the surreal / Im a bit too much? A bit too much for who? I ask. Im just not that comfortable sometimes, he says. So thats why the lyrics were actually difficult, not really to write, but to actually show the guys. And later in the song more musical insecurities creep in: I couldnt sing for shit, so I shout about crisps / And I never take risks. And maybe most wrenching: Ive never been an asset. From an outsiders perspective, such confessions are nothing short of heartbreaking.

But to his mates? The ones who know him best? Theyre actually able to see lightness in the lyrics. That Ive never been an asset line, says Fox. I thought he was saying Ive never been on acid! Likewise, Duggan said he saw humor in much of it, like the crisps line, and one in which Dara evokes his band nickname Safety Thumbsbestowed on him after the guys once saw him bracing himself with his thumbs in a car in LA.that was only going about 45 miles an hour. (Im a very safe guy! laughs Kiely.) I did find a lot of them funny, says Duggan. But heartbreaking as well. Theyre my favorite lyrics on the album, but we just asked him, Are you comfortable with doing this? Disarmingly honest, Faulkner calls them. Quite incredible and revealing. And says Fox: It takes a lot of guts to go out and do that in from of x amount of people. You know, everyone can think negatively about themselves. But not all of us could express it in such a public forum.

Aw thanks, guys, says Kiely, only half-jokingly, adding that he is gratified at the response to the song. Its very therapeutic and a cathartic kind of feeling, writing that way. As the band prepares to head out on the road, Kiely knows its likely hell encounter strangers who approach him wanting to talk about their own mental health. Hes okay with it. I did a university course in Dublin, when we were doing The Talkies, in peer support work, in mental health. I worked in a hospital there, a clinic, where you kind of share experiences and stuff like that. So, Im used to talking to people in that kind of mindset, I guess. And it can be a bit intense, having people come up and say all this stuff, or whatever. But its always really positive.

Gilla Band is prepared to head out on the road and, as Kiely (back row, left) says, ready to have some deep chats with fans.

Finally, I cant let the guys go without addressing the uh, Gilla in the room. It was less than a year agoNovember of 2021that the band known for a decade-plus as Girl Band announced that it was changing its name, along with a statement apologizing for choosing a misgendered name in the first place, and to anyone who has been hurt or affected by it. Whether people thought the change was long overdue or utterly unnecessary is irrelevant to the band. The real question has less to do with the decision than its timing. Fox had been asked by Noisey about the band name and its history of use as a dismissive, demeaning term for women in music as far back as 2015, a few months after FADER included Girl Band in a piece on acts with problematic names. But after a while, the probing seemed to fade, The Talkies came out, the band toured, and the world seemed to have moved on. So why the change in 2021? Fox says the critical press wasnt the point. Our reasoning in coming towards the decision to do it was more of a collective personal arrival, he explains. All four of us thought it was the right thing to do. As opposed to a reactionary one, where it was like, Were getting shit, we should do something about this.

As for the new name, Gilla is an Old Irish given name that, Fox says with a laugh, was the result of a few more Covid Zoom meetings. It was a tedious process, he recalls. Because its a weird thing to do, even though were happy to have done it. Like imagine trying to come up with a new name, if you thought, Okay, I dont feel comfortable being John. Its weird to think about something like that! We knew we wanted to keep the initials and the band part of it. Because it was just changing the word, that was the important thing that we wanted to do. It was likeGloop Band? Go-Go Band? Guinness Band?

And now, for how long do they expect to see their new name with fka Girl Band attached? Oh, that will happen for a bit, for sure. It might happen forever, I dont know! says Duggan, while Fox, who seems to have heard quite enough about the topic, is blunter: I dont really care!

John Norris is a veteran music journalist, who began his career as a writer, editor, correspondent and anchor at MTV News. Following MTV, he served as Managing Editor and Host of the music discovery site Noisevox, and as Supervising Producer of News at Fuse. His freelance work includes music and culture writing for Billboard, GQ, The Daily Beast, VICE, SPIN, Pigeons & Planes, VMAN and Lyrical Lemonade, and hosting and writing for Sirius XM, The Recording Academy, South By Southwest, and the Bonnaroo and Sasquatch music festivals.

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