Port Henderson
Port Henderson is a fishing village on the south west shore of the Gair Loch near the village of Gairloch, Ross-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dry Island and Eilean Horrisdale.
Dry Island
Islet
Dry Island is an inhabited island in Loch Gairloch in Wester Ross, Scotland, and part of the Inner Hebrides. Dry Island is translated from the Gaelic name for the Island "Eilean Tioram". Dry Island is situated 1½ miles east of Port Henderson.
Eilean Horrisdale
Island
Photo: Chris Eilbeck, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Eilean Horrisdale is an uninhabited island in Loch Gairloch in Wester Ross, Scotland. Eilean Horrisdale is situated 2 miles east of Port Henderson.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Badachro and Redpoint.
Badachro
Village
Photo: Sarah Charlesworth, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Badachro is a former fishing village, in the northwest Highlands of Scotland. Badachro is situated 1½ miles east of Port Henderson.
Redpoint
Hamlet
Redpoint is a small settlement in the north west of Highland, Scotland. It takes its name from Red Point, a low promontory to the south, which marks a turn in the coastline from facing west to south east as it becomes Loch Torridon. Redpoint is situated 3 miles southwest of Port Henderson.
Gairloch
Photo: Dmacle2179, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gairloch is a straggling community along the west coast of Ross and Cromarty in the Scottish Highlands, with a population of 620 in 2020. The land is hilly and farming isn't very productive, but shellfishing remains a traditional occupation.
Port Henderson
- Type: Village
- Description: human settlement in Highland, Scotland, UK
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.69672° or 57° 41′ 48″ northLongitude
-5.76967° or 5° 46′ 11″ westElevation
108 feet (33 metres)Open location code
9C9PM6WJ+M4OpenStreetMap ID
node 2302780703OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Irish—“Port Henderson” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Port Henderson”
- Dutch: “Port Henderson”
- Irish: “Portaigil”
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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 “Port Henderson”. Photo: Massimo Telò, CC BY-SA 4.0.