Gills Bay

Gills Bay, which is situated about 3 mi west of John o' Groats with the community of Gills close by, has one of the longest stretches of low-lying rock coast on the northern shores of Caithness.

Photo: Gordon McKinlay, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include MeyGen.

MeyGen

Power station

MeyGen is a tidal stream energy plant in the north of Scotland. The project is located in the Pentland Firth, specifically the Inner Sound between the Island of Stroma and the Scottish mainland.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Canisbay and Huna.

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.

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.

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.

Gills Bay

Type: Bay
Description: bay in Highland, Scotland, UK
Category: body of water
Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

58.64328° or 58° 38′ 36″ north

Longitude

-3.15359° or 3° 9′ 13″ west

Open location code

9CCRJRVW+8H

OpenStreetMap ID

node 8639762889

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=bay

GeoNames ID

2648654

Wikidata ID

Q5562434

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Swedish—“Gills Bay” goes by many names.

Catalan: “Gills Bay”
Cebuano: “Gills Bay”
Japanese: “ギルズ湾”
Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gills Bay”
Swedish: “Gills Bay”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Gills Bay Harbour and Canisbay Kirk.

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