Waternish Point
Waternish or Vaternish Point is the northwestern promontory of the Waternish peninsula on Skye. Its chief feature is the steep cliff above a rocky beach.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Neil Parley, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Cape
- Description: northwestern promontory of the Waternish peninsula on Skye, Highland, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Vaternish”, “Vaternish Point”, and “Waternish”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Waternish Point Lighthouse and Dun Borrafiach.
Waternish Point Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Nigel Homer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Vaternish Lighthouse was built on Waternish Point in 1924. The engineers were David and Charles Stevenson. The original lens was donated to the Museum of Scottish Lighthouses.
Dun Borrafiach
Archaeological site
Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dun Borrafiach is an Iron Age broch located on the north coast of the island of Skye, in Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Trumpan and Geary.
Trumpan
Village
Photo: PaulT, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Trumpan is a hamlet located on the Vaternish peninsula in the Isle of Skye, in the Scottish council area of the Highland. Trumpan Church, which is now a ruin, was the focus of a particularly brutal incident in 1578, when the Clan MacDonald of Uist travelled…
Geary
Village
Photo: Dave Fergusson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Geary is a small crofting township, of some 40 houses, located on the remote northeast coast of the Waternish peninsula, overlooking the sea loch Loch Snizort, on the island of Skye, Scotland.
Halistra
Village
Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Halistra, is a small crofting township located on the west coast of the Waternish peninsula, overlooking Loch Bay, on the island of Skye, Scotland. It is in the Scottish council area of Highland.
Waternish Point
- Categories: point and landform
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.60851° or 57° 36′ 31″ northLongitude
-6.63479° or 6° 38′ 5″ westOpen location code
9C9MJ958+C3OpenStreetMap ID
node 21080476OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
2635008Wikidata ID
Q7974376
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Waternish Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Vaternish Point”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Rubha Bhatairnis”
- Swedish: “Vaternish Point”
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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 “Waternish Point”. Photo: Neil Parley, CC BY 3.0.