Abstract
It seems probable that the existence of Rockall has been known for a very long time but the first recorded landing we have is of a party from H.M.S.Endymion,with Lt Basil Hall, in 1811 (Fisher 1956). Records at that time of good fishing in its vicinity are frequent but the true extent of Rockall Bank was not known until 1831 when it was surveyed by Captain Alexander Thomas Emeric Vidal on H.M.S.Pike(Wigley 1831). The tiny prominence of rock bore little relation to the enormous extent of the shallow bank from which it protruded above the waves, more often than not, because of its white cap, mistaken for a ship under sail.
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