Zantman's Rock is located 34 miles (54.7 km) to the west of Land's End

Land's End

Land's End is a headland and small settlement in west Cornwall, England, within the United Kingdom. It is located on the Penwith peninsula approximately eight miles west-southwest of Penzance....

, Cornwall

Cornwall

Cornwall is a unitary authority and ceremonial county of England, within the United Kingdom. It is bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Cornwall has a population of , and covers an area of...

, and 6 miles (9.7 km) west from the Isles of Scilly

Isles of Scilly

The Isles of Scilly form an archipelago off the southwestern tip of the Cornish peninsula of Great Britain. The islands have had a unitary authority council since 1890, and are separate from the Cornwall unitary authority, but some services are combined with Cornwall and the islands are still part...

. Viewed from a distance, it is barely visible on the surface of the waters. It is 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Bishop Rock Lighthouse, and about 0.25 mile (0.402335 km) northeast of the Crim Rocks

Crim Rocks

Crim Rocks is a small group of uninhabited islands in the Isles of Scilly, England, United Kingdom.They lie on the western fringe of the Isles of Scilly. They are about north of Bishop Rock, and about southwest of Zantman's Rock...

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The name "Zantman's Rock" is recorded on an Admiralty chart of 1860: before then, it appears not to have been distinguished from the Crim Rocks a short distance to the southwest. Several legends attempt to explain the name of the rock, one of which involves a Dutchman

Dutch people

The Dutch people are an ethnic group native to the Netherlands. They share a common culture and speak the Dutch language. Dutch people and their descendants are found in migrant communities worldwide, notably in Suriname, Chile, Brazil, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and the United...

 being shipwrecked and finding himself in the unlikely position of clinging on to the rock.

Zantman's Rock has been the cause of at least one famous shipwreck

Shipwreck

A shipwreck is what remains of a ship that has wrecked, either sunk or beached. Whatever the cause, a sunken ship or a wrecked ship is a physical example of the event: this explains why the two concepts are often overlapping in English....

: that of the Susanna, on 14 August 1913. The wreckage still lies on the southwestern side of Zantman's Rock.

See also

• List of shipwrecks of the Isles of Scilly
• Bishop Rock
• Crim Rocks