Skaill Skerries
Skaill Skerries is in Orkney Islands, Scotland. Skaill Skerries is situated nearby to the locality Steinflett, as well as near The Ness.Places of Interest
Highlights include The Gloup and St Ninian’s Church, Skaill.
The Gloup
Photo: Stephen McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Gloup is a collapsed sea cave in the Mull Head Nature Reserve in the islands of Orkney, Scotland. The name derives from the Old Norse "gluppa", meaning a chasm.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rerwick Head and Tankerness.
Rerwick Head
Locality
Photo: Adam Ward, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rerwick Head is a locality, which is situated 4½ miles northwest of Skaill Skerries.
Tankerness
Village
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Tankerness is a district in the St Andrews parish in Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. Essentially a peninsula, it is about 13 kilometres south-east of Kirkwall and 1 kilometre east of Kirkwall Airport. Tankerness is situated 5 miles west of Skaill Skerries.
Skaill Skerries
- Type: Rock
- Category: landform
- Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.95° or 58° 57′ northLongitude
-2.7° or 2° 42′ westOpen location code
9CCVW8X2+X2GeoNames ID
2637787
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