Quinns Rocks
Quinns or Quinn's may refer to: * Quinns Rocks, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth * Quinn's Post Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, near Gallipoli, Turkey See also * Quins (other) * Quinn (other) Quinn may refer to: People * Quinn (soccer) (born 1995), Canadian soccer player and Olympic gold medalist * Quinn (given name) * Quinn (surname) * Quinn (musician) Places in the United States * Quinn, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * ...

Quinns Rocks, Western Australia
Quinns Rocks is an outer coastal suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located north of Perth's central business district. It is part of the City of Wanneroo local government area. The suburb was formally established in 1962 as a rural townsite, focused around Quinns Beach, the area's main amenity. Geography Quinns Rocks is bounded by Mindarie to the south (Quinns Road), Merriwa and Butler to the east (Marmion Avenue) and Jindalee to the north (Hampshire Drive). To the west is the Indian Ocean and the coastline of Quinns Beach, which straddles the whole length of the suburb. History Name The suburb takes its name from the offshore reef first noted during a coastline traverse by Assistant Surveyor James Cowle in 1867. Cowle was continuing a survey begun by Robert Quin, who had reached a spot about south-east of the rocks in 1866. Although the modern-day name is spelt with a double "n", the rocks are thought to have been named after Quin, who emigrated to Western Australia in ...
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Quinn's Post Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery
Quinn's Post Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery from World War I in the former Anzac sector of the Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. The battles at Gallipoli, some of whose participating soldiers are buried at this cemetery, were an eight-month campaign fought by Commonwealth and French forces against Turkish forces in an attempt to force Turkey out of the war, to relieve the deadlock of the Western Front (France/Belgium) and to open a supply route to Russia through the Dardanelles and the Black Sea. Quinn's post was established on the day of the landing, 25 April 1915, as a New Zealand machine gun position and was taken over by Australian troops the following day. It was held by a variety of units until the evacuation of the Anzac sector and was the site of continual attacks and hand-to-hand fighting as Turkish troops defending the peninsula strove to recapture it. Fighting was intense, with heavy casualties on both sides, as it was a key position at the end of ...
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Quins (other)
Quins may refer to: Quins is the nickname of two rugby teams who play under the name Harlequins and play their home games at the Twickenham Stoop: *Harlequins RL, a rugby league team *Harlequin F.C., a rugby union team It may also refer to: *Quintuplet quins is short for quintuplets meaning 5 in number as in multiple birth *Quintuplets ''Quintuplets'' is an American sitcom that aired 22 episodes on Fox from June 16, 2004 to January 12, 2005. The program starred Andy Richter and Rebecca Creskoff and shared some of their experiences parenting teenage quintuplets. Synopsis The ... is a sitcom that aired twenty-two episodes on FOX from June 16, 2004, through January 12, 2005 * Quintuplets 2000 is episode 52 in the fourth season of the Comedy Central series South Park ;Places * Quins, Aveyron, a commune of France in the Aveyron department See also * Quinns (other) {{disambiguation ...
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