Gruinard Island
Gruinard Island is a small, oval-shaped Scottish island approximately two kilometres long by one kilometre wide, located in Gruinard Bay, about halfway between Gairloch and Ullapool.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Kevin Walsh, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Highland, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “‘Gruinard Island’” and “Anthrax Island”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Badluarach and Laide.
Badluarach
Hamlet
Photo: Callum Black, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Badluarach is a small village on the south shore of Little Loch Broom, in Wester Ross in the Highland council area of Scotland. Badluarach is at the end of a minor road, which joins to the A832 road. Badluarach is situated 3 miles east of Gruinard Island.
Laide
Village
Photo: Roger McLachlan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Laide is a small village in the northwest of the Highlands of Scotland. It is situated on the southern shore of Gruinard Bay, about 30 km west of Ullapool. Laide is situated 3 miles southwest of Gruinard Island.
Scoraig
Village
Photo: Chris Eilbeck, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Scoraig is a settlement located on a remote peninsula between Little Loch Broom and Loch Broom, north-west of Ullapool in Ross and Cromarty, Highland, Scotland. Scoraig is situated 4 miles northeast of Gruinard Island.
Gruinard Island
- Category: landform
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Swedish—“Gruinard Island” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Gruinard-eiland”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Грын’ерд”
- Belarusian: “Грын’ерд”
- Cebuano: “Gruinard Island”
- Chinese: “格林亚德岛”
- Chinese: “格鲁伊纳岛”
- Chinese: “炭疽岛”
- Dutch: “Gruinard Island”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Gruinard”
- Finnish: “Gruinard”
- French: “île Gruinard”
- French: “Île Gruinard”
- German: “Gruinard Island”
- Hebrew: “האי גריניארד”
- Hungarian: “Gruinard-sziget”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Gruinard”
- Irish: “Eilean Ghruinneard”
- Italian: “isola Gruinard”
- Italian: “Isola Gruinard”
- Japanese: “グリュナード島”
- Kirghiz: “Грюинард аралы”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gruinard Island”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Gruinardīeg”
- Russian: “Груинард”
- Sakizaya: “ikitakid “usa ahemi’ay „a subal世上最便宜的島嶼”
- Spanish: “Isla de Gruinard”
- Swedish: “Gruinard Island”
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Gruinard Island”. Photo: Kevin Walsh, CC BY 2.0.