Aviation monument at Cruden Bay
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Aviation monument at Cruden Bay
Image: © Mary and Angus Hogg Taken: 23 Aug 2019
The panel explains that, from the sands of Cruden Bay on the 30th July 1914, the Norwegian aviator Kommander Tryggve Gran D.F.C. made the first crossing of the North Sea by air.
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Image Location
Latitude
57.415991
Longitude
-1.847996