Cape Wrath
Cape Wrath is a cape in the Durness parish of the county of Sutherland in the Highlands of Scotland. It is the most north-westerly point in Great Britain.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Colin Wheatley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cape Wrath Lighthouse.
Cape Wrath Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cape Wrath Lighthouse at Cape Wrath was built in 1828 by Robert Stevenson and was manned until 1998, when it was converted to automatic operation by the Northern Lighthouse Board.
Cape Wrath
- Type: Cape
- Description: northwestern extreme point of mainland Great Britain
- Category: landform
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.62609° or 58° 37′ 34″ northLongitude
-4.99969° or 4° 59′ 59″ westElevation
220 feet (67 metres)Open location code
9CCQJ2G2+C4OpenStreetMap ID
node 339057911OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Cape Wrath” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Cape Wrath”
- Breton: “Am Parbh”
- Catalan: “Cape Wrath”
- Cebuano: “Cape Wrath”
- Chinese: “愤怒角”
- Chinese: “憤怒角”
- Czech: “Wrath”
- Dutch: “Cape Wrath”
- French: “cap Wrath”
- French: “Cap Wrath”
- German: “Cape Wrath”
- German: “Kap Wrath”
- Hebrew: “כף רף”
- Hungarian: “Wrath-fok”
- Irish: “Am Parbh”
- Italian: “Capo Wrath”
- Japanese: “ケープラス”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cape Wrath”
- Polish: “Cape Wrath (geografia)”
- Polish: “Cape Wrath”
- Portuguese: “Cabo Wrath”
- Romanian: “Capul Wrath”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Am Parbh”
- Scottish Gaelic: “An Carbh”
- Spanish: “Cabo Wrath”
- Swedish: “Cape Wrath”
- Welsh: “Penrhyn Wrath”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Cape Wrath”. Photo: Colin Wheatley, CC BY-SA 2.0.