Village Bay
Village Bay is a bay in Scotland, United Kingdom. Village Bay is situated nearby to the locality Glacan Oiseabhal, as well as near Gearraidh Àrd.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Bay
- Description: bay on the south-east of Hirta, St Kilda, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Bàgh a‘ Bhaile”, “Loch Hiort”, and “Loch Hirta”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dùn and Oiseval.
Dùn
Island
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dùn is an island in St Kilda, Scotland. It is nearly 1 mile long. Its name simply means "fort" in Scottish Gaelic, but the fort itself has been lost – old maps show it on Gob an Dùin, which is at the seaward end.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include St Kilda and Glen Mor.
St Kilda
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St Kilda is a small archipelago in the Atlantic, 40 miles west of the Outer Hebrides or Western Isles of Scotland, of which it's administratively part. Hirta is the main island, and there is no island called St Kilda.
Village Bay
- Category: body of water
- Location: Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.80782° or 57° 48′ 28″ northLongitude
-8.56675° or 8° 34′ 0″ westElevation
246 feet (75 metres)Open location code
9C9HRC5M+48OpenStreetMap ID
node 309936549OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Swedish—“Village Bay” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Вилаге”
- Cebuano: “Loch Hirta”
- Cebuano: “Village”
- Swedish: “Village”
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Localities in the Area
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Highlights include Laimrig and Kirk.
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