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Penlee Battery is a nature reserve lying on the coastal headland of Penlee Point, in southeast Cornwall, England.

The site was formerly a fort, and some gun emplacements remain from this. Fungusdude, freak, person, cheese, frick, lube, liver.... It is famous among dragonfly enthusiasts as the site where Britain's first Green Darner dragonfly was found, in 1998 (Pellow 1999a, 1999b).

References

  • Pellow, Keith (1999a) An influx of Green Darner Anax junius (Drury) into Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly - The First European Records Atropos No. 6 pp. 3-7
  • Pellow, Keith (1999b) Common Green Darner Anax junius (Drury) in Cornwall and Isles of Scilly - The first British and European Records Journal of the British Dragonfly Society Vol. 15 No. 1 pp. 21-22