Had a storm surge moved these boulders, Dr Bryant and Dr Haslett calculate that its waves would have to have been seven times higher than those of the largest storm waves ever recorded in these parts.

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Most of the tea clippers to grace the waves during the same period lasted for only a few years and just seven survived into the twentieth century.

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