Point of Sleat
Point of Sleat is a cape in Highland Council, Scotland. Point of Sleat is situated nearby to the locality An Doirionnaich, as well as near Sgurran Seilich.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Point of Sleat Lighthouse.
Point of Sleat Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Roger McLachlan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Point of Sleat Lighthouse is a lighthouse on Skye in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland. It was built in 1934 at the Point of Sleat at the southern end of the island.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aird of Sleat and Ardvasar.
Aird of Sleat
Village
Photo: Dave Fergusson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Aird of Sleat is a village on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. It is located at the southern end of the Sleat peninsula, 4 miles southeast of Ardvasar and Armadale, at the end of a minor road.
Ardvasar
Village
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ardvasar is a village near the southern end of the Sleat peninsula, on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. It is just to the south of the village of Armadale, where a ferry crosses to Mallaig. Nearby attractions include Armadale Castle and the Museum of the Isles.
Armadale
Photo: Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Armadale is the ferry port and main village of Sleat peninsula, the gently rolling southern part of the Isle of Skye. To the south it merges with Ardvasar, and a lane continues to dead-end at Aird of Sleat.
Point of Sleat
- Type: Cape
- Description: point on island of Skye, Highland, Scotland, UK
- Categories: point and landform
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.01807° or 57° 1′ 5″ northLongitude
-6.01738° or 6° 1′ 3″ westOpen location code
9C9M2X9M+62OpenStreetMap ID
node 3711746277OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
2637658Wikidata ID
Q24638652
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Point of Sleat” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Point of Sleat”
- Irish: “Rubha Shlèite”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Rubha Shlèite”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Sléibhte”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Slèite”
- Swedish: “Point of Sleat”
Localities in the Area
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