Friesland
Friesland is a hamlet in Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, Scotland. Friesland is situated nearby to the hamlet Acha, as well as near Uig.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dùn an Achaidh and Coll Airport.
Dùn an Achaidh
Archaeological site
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Dùn an Achaidh, sometimes Anglicised as Dun Acha, is a dun located near the village of Acha on the Inner Hebridean island of Coll. It is considered the best preserved dun on the island.
Coll Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Gordon Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Coll Island Airport is located 5 NM west southwest of Arinagour on the island of Coll in the Inner Hebrides. Highland Airways who originally operated the route to Oban went into administration in 2010, but a new operator, Hebridean Air Services now operates the route under a PSO with flights to Oban and Tiree using Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander aircraft. Coll Airport is situated 1½ miles northwest of Friesland.
Dùn Anlaimh
Archaeological site
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Dùn Anlaimh, also known as Dùn Amhlaidh, and Eilean nan Cinneachan, is a crannog, located within Loch nan Cinneachan on the Inner Hebridean island of Coll. Dùn Anlaimh is situated 2 miles north of Friesland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Acha and Coll.
Coll
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Coll is an island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It's about 12 miles long by 3 miles wide and in 2011 had a population of 195, mostly in the ferry port of Arinagour.
Arinagour
Village
Photo: Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Arinagour is a village on the island of Coll, in the Argyll and Bute council area of Scotland. It is the main settlement on the island, and the location of the island's ferry terminal. It has a population of around 50. Arinagour is situated 3 miles northeast of Friesland.
Friesland
- Type: Hamlet
- Also known as: “Frisland”
- Category: locality
- Location: Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.59178° or 56° 35′ 30″ northLongitude
-6.57934° or 6° 34′ 46″ westElevation
7 feet (2 metres)Open location code
9C8MHCRC+P7OpenStreetMap ID
node 613270321OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
2649054
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