Vigo Telephone Exchange & Radio Mast
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The photograph on this page of Vigo Telephone Exchange & Radio Mast by Hywel Williams as part of the Geograph project.
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Vigo Telephone Exchange & Radio Mast
Image: © Hywel Williams Taken: 25 Jun 2005
The telephone exchange in the foreground with the BT radio mast in the background. Widely believed by locals at one point to be some sort of over the horizon radar to detect nuclear attack, this radio mast, which can be seen from miles around, is in fact a communications relay mast.
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Image Location
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Latitude
51.328284
Longitude
0.341049