Sacrifice rock is a rock protruding out of sea approximately off Calicut when you
sail from north to south.
In the late 16th century, during Calicut’s struggle against Portuguese, Kunhali Marakkar ‘s nephew and his companions captured more than 100 Portuguese and brought them to these rocks and slaughtered them.
Thus it is named as Sacrifice rock.
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