United Kingdom cliff
Noxious Bluff
You can see 5 km from here, looking north-east.
Calculating the panorama…
Drag to turn around. The relief is drawn 2.2 times taller so the ridges can be read; far ridges are paler, as in the real air.
The view
Up to 5 km away.
Calculated on the relief one degree at a time, up to 250 km, with the curvature of the Earth and the refraction of the air: what stands above the horizon from here.
Our own rating, from the relief and the climate only: open horizon (35 points), how far you see (25), sea and named peaks in view (20) and clear months (20).
- 5 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
- 96%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 53%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 6Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 0 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 6 peaks you can name from here
From west to east as you turn around: height, distance and direction. Each one links to its guide on Peakyas, our mountain atlas.
From the relief only: buildings, trees and haze are not in the model. On a hazy day you see much less; 250 km is the limit of our calculation.
The sun
The best sunsets are in February, in April and from August to September.
When the sun really disappears from this viewpoint — behind the relief or into the sea — and in which direction, on the 15th of each month, in local time.
- Jansouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset5%
- Febwest34 min before the sea-level sunset6%
- Marwest40 min before the sea-level sunset5%
- Aprnorth-west54 min before the sea-level sunset6%
- Maynorth-west116 min before the sea-level sunset5%
- Junnorth-west106 min before the sea-level sunset5%
- Julnorth-west108 min before the sea-level sunset5%
- Augnorth-west130 min before the sea-level sunset6%
- Sepwest38 min before the sea-level sunset6%
- Octwest38 min before the sea-level sunset5%
- Novsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset5%
- Decsouth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset5%
- Time: when the sun goes behind the horizon you see from here.
- Minutes: how much earlier the relief hides the sun.
- %: share of clear sky that month (NASA, 2001–2020).
The highlighted months are the clearest. Golden hour starts about an hour before.
The place
Noxious Bluff.
Cliff in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Noxious Bluff is a cliff in United Kingdom.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 5 km away, looking north-east.
The sea fills 53% of the horizon.
6 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Hodson (1,005 m), 50 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 96% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in February, in April and from August to September.

Plan the visit
A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.
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From above
The viewpoint and its surroundings.
The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the viewpoint, with what OpenStreetMap shows nearby.

Around, in OpenStreetMap
- other viewpoints within 5 km
- named peaks within 5 km
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails within 3 km
- shelters and huts within 5 km
- car parks within 3 km
- visitor centres within 5 km
- restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- campsites within 10 km
- places to stay within 10 km
Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.
In our other atlases
What you see from Noxious Bluff, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q7067306) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Sun | J. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms |
| Peaks in view | Peakyas (Wikidata, CC0) |
| Panorama and altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Clouds | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Islandyas, Darkskyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
The family
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