Sandaig Bay
Sandaig Bay is a coastal embayment, on a chord of 2.04 kilometres, on a 194° orientation, located on the northwestern end of the sea loch, Loch Nevis, facing the Sound of Sleat.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Gordon Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Airor and Inverie.
Airor
Hamlet
Photo: Gordon Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Airor is a hamlet in the peninsula of Knoydart, Lochaber, Highland, on the west coast of Scotland. It is situated on the north-west coast of Knoydart, and consists of a few houses clustered round Airor Bay, as well as several pre-clearance ruins.
Inverie
Village
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Knoydart is a peninsula in Ross and Cromarty in the western Highlands of Scotland, bounded to the south by Loch Nevis and to the north by Loch Hourn. It's remote, rugged and sparsely populated, and best known for having the only villages in mainland Britain with no road connection to the rest of the network - nor even with each other.
Mallaig
Photo: Dbx54, Public domain.
Mallaig is a ferry port and fishing village on the west coast of The Great Glen and Strathspey region of the Scottish Highlands, with a population of 660 in 2020. The name is Norse, Mel vik, sand-dune bay.
Sandaig Bay
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in Inverness-shire, Highland, Scotland, UK, north of the mouth of Loch Nevis
- Category: body of water
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.04415° or 57° 2′ 39″ northLongitude
-5.76852° or 5° 46′ 7″ westElevation
384 feet (117 metres)Open location code
9C9P26VJ+MHOpenStreetMap ID
node 1758563992OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Sandaig Bay” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Sandaig Bay (luuk sa Hiniusang Gingharian, lat 57,05, long -5,75)”
- Cebuano: “Sandaig Bay”
- Swedish: “Sandaig Bay (vik i Storbritannien, lat 57,05, long -5,75)”
- Swedish: “Sandaig Bay”
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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 “Sandaig Bay”. Photo: Gordon Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.