Pentland Firth
The Pentland Firth is a strait which separates the Orkney Islands from Caithness in the north of Scotland. Despite the name, it is not a firth.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Roger McLassus 1951, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Stroma Lighthouse.
Stroma Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stroma is an uninhabited island in the Pentland Firth, between Orkney and the mainland of Scotland. It forms part of the civil parish of Canisbay in Caithness, in the Highland council area.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Huna and Canisbay.
Huna
Hamlet
Photo: Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Huna is a small remote crofting township, located 1 mile northeast of Canisbay and 1.5 miles west of John o' Groats in Caithness, in Scotland. It is currently part of the Highland Council area.
Canisbay
Hamlet
Photo: DeFacto, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Canisbay is a rural hamlet located about one mile southwest of Huna and two and a half miles southwest of John o' Groats in Caithness, Scottish Highlands, and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.
John o’Groats
Photo: Davidcarroll, CC BY-SA 4.0.
John o'Groats is a village in the former county of Caithness on the far north coast of Scotland. With a population of about 300, it makes its living from tourism, as it's the traditional north terminus of the British mainland road network.
Pentland Firth
- Type: Strait
- Description: sound between the Orkney Islands and Highland, Scotland, UK
- Categories: sound and body of water
- Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.71024° or 58° 42′ 37″ northLongitude
-3.12029° or 3° 7′ 13″ westOpen location code
9CCRPV6H+3VOpenStreetMap ID
way 931957817OpenStreetMap feature
natural=straitGeoNames ID
2640403Wikidata ID
Q1860233
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Welsh—“Pentland Firth” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Pentlənd-Ferd boğazı”
- Catalan: “Pentland Firth”
- Cebuano: “Pentland Firth”
- Chinese: “品蘭灣”
- Chinese: “彭特兰海峡”
- Chinese: “彭特蘭海峽”
- Czech: “Pentland Firth”
- Czech: “Pentlandský průliv”
- Dutch: “Pentland Firth”
- French: “An Caol Arcach”
- French: “Pentland Firth”
- German: “Pentland Firth”
- Hungarian: “Pentland Firth”
- Irish: “An Caol Arcach”
- Italian: “Pentland Firth”
- Japanese: “ペントランド海峡”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pentland Firth”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “An Caol Arcach”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pentland Firth”
- Norwegian: “Pentland Firth”
- Polish: “Pentland Firth”
- Russian: “Пентленд-Ферт”
- Scots: “Pentland Firth”
- Scottish Gaelic: “An Caol Arcach”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Linne Arcach”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pentland Firth”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pentland”
- Slovak: “Pentlandský prieliv”
- Swedish: “Pentland firth”
- Swedish: “Pentlandsundet”
- Welsh: “Moryd Pentland”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Nethertown and Uppertown.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Little Gloup and Stroma, Bught o‘ Camm.
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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 “Pentland Firth”. Photo: Roger McLassus 1951, CC BY-SA 3.0.