Scotland
Scottish Highlands
Argyll & Bute

Mull of Kintyre

The Mull of Kintyre is the southwesternmost tip of the in southwest . From here, the coast of is visible on a calm and clear day, and a historic lighthouse, the second commissioned in Scotland, guides shipping in the intervening .
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  • Type: Cape
  • Description: headland in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
  • Historically known as: “Mull of Cantyre”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mull of Kintyre Lighthouse.

Guest house
Photo: Steve Partridge, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The on Mull of Kintyre was the second lighthouse commissioned in Scotland by the Commissioners of the Northern Lights. It was designed and built by Thomas Smith and completed in 1788.

Mull of Kintyre

Latitude
55.29956° or 55° 17′ 58″ north
Longitude
-5.7986° or 5° 47′ 55″ west
Open location code
9C7P76X2+RH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6572722269
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­cape
Geo­Names ID
2645351
Wiki­data ID
Q936930
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Ukrainian—“Mull of Kintyre” goes by many names.
  • 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”
  • Danish: “Mull of Kintyre”
  • Dutch: “Mull of Kintyre”
  • French: “Mull of Kintyre”
  • Galician: “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 Bokmål: “Mull of Kintyre”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mull of Kintyre”
  • Norwegian: “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”
  • Ukrainian: “Малл-оф-Кінтайр”

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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 “Mull of Kintyre”. Photo: Patrick Mackie, CC BY-SA 2.0.