Cape Wrath Lighthouse at Cape Wrath was built in 1828 by Robert Stevenson and was manned until 1998, when it was converted to automatic operation by the Northern Lighthouse Board. Cape Wrath Lighthouse is situated 2½ miles northwest of Kearvaig.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Achiemore.

Achiemore

Hamlet

Photo: RH Dengate, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Achiemore was a crofting community located on the Cape Wrath peninsula near the village of Durness in the Scottish county of Sutherland. The hamlet is just south of the farmstead of Daill on the western shore of the Kyle of Durness. Achiemore is situated 5 miles southeast of Kearvaig.

Kearvaig

Type: Locality
Also known as: “Cearbhag”
Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

58.60877° or 58° 36′ 32″ north

Longitude

-4.94175° or 4° 56′ 30″ west

Elevation

322 feet (98 metres)

Open location code

9CCQJ355+G7

OpenStreetMap ID

node 4880505088

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

GeoNames ID

2645907

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