Mull of Cantyre
The Mull of Kintyre is the southwesternmost tip of the Kintyre Peninsula in southwest Scotland. From here, the Antrim coast of Northern Ireland is visible on a calm and clear day, and a historic lighthouse, the second commissioned in Scotland, guides shipping in the intervening North Channel.- Type: Cape
- Description: headland in Scotland
- Category: headland
- Location: Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
Latitude 55.2996° or 55° 17' 58.4" north | Longitude -5.7986° or 5° 47' 55" west |
OpenStreetMap ID node 6572722269 | GeoNames ID 2645351 |
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Also Known As
- Basque: Mull of Kintyre
- Breton: Maol Chinn Tìre
- Catalan: Mull of Kintyre
- Cebuano: Mull of Kintyre
- Chinese: 琴泰岬
- Croatian: Mull of Kintyre
- Czech: Mull of Kintyre
- Dutch: Mull of Kintyre
- English: Mull of Kintyre
- French: Mull of Kintyre
- German: Mull of Kintyre
- Hebrew: צוקי קינטייר
- Irish: Maol Chinn Tíre
- Italian: Mull of Kintyre
- Japanese: キンタイア岬
- Norwegian: Mull of Kintyre
- Norwegian Bokmål: Mull of Kintyre
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Mull of Kintyre
- Polish: Mull of Kintyre
- Portuguese: Mull of Kintyre
- Russian: Малл-оф-Кинтайр
- Scots: Moil o Kintyre
- Scots: Mull o Kintyre
- Serbo-Croatian: Mull of Kintyre
- Spanish: Mull of Kintyre
- Swedish: Mull of Kintyre
In the Area
Localities
- Carskey
- High KeilHamlet
- SouthendVillage
- MachrihanishVillage, 9 miles north
Landmarks
- Mull of Kintyre LighthouseLighthouse, 4100 feet north
- Beinn na LiceSummit, 1¼ miles northeast
- Strone GlenValley, 3½ miles east
- Glen BreackerieValley, 4½ miles northeast
Other Places
- Glenadale WaterStream, 4½ miles northeast
- Losset ParkEstate, 8 miles north
- The Ugadale Hotel & CottagesHotel, 9 miles north
- Machrihanish Meteorlogical StationMeteorological station, 10 miles north
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