The City of Lions (occasionally written as Carlyon) was the capital of the legendary kingdom of Lyonesse. Situated on what is today the Seven Stones reef, some eighteen miles west of Land's End in Cornwall and eight miles south of the Isles of Scilly, it was engulfed by the sea, along with the rest of Lyonesse, in 537. Lyonesse, Lyoness, or Lyonnesse is the sunken land believed in legend to lie off the Isles of Scilly, to the south-west of Cornwall. ... The Torrey Canyon was the first of the big supertankers, capable of carrying a cargo of 120,000 tons of crude oil and was wrecked just off the South West coast of England in 1967 causing an environmental disaster. ... Lands End (Cornish name: Pedn a Wollaz) is a headland on the Penwith peninsula, located near Penzance, Cornwall, at the extreme south-western tip of the British mainland. ... Motto: Onen hag oll (Cornish: One and all) Geography Status Ceremonial and (smaller) Non-metropolitan county Region South West England Population - Total (2004 est. ... Tresco, the second largest Island of Scillonia The Isles of Scilly (Cornish: Ynysek Syllan) form an archipelago of islands off the Cornish coast. ... Lyonesse, Lyoness, or Lyonnesse is the sunken land believed in legend to lie off the Isles of Scilly, to the south-west of Cornwall. ... Events Pope Silverius deposed by Belisarius at the order of Justinian, who appoints as his successor Pope Vigilius. ...