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Faslane

Faslane on is the name of a bay near the village of , and is now the main part of in , , as well as being a Defence Logistics Organisation port, operated in dual site organisation with Great Harbour, , by Serco Denholm.
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Photo: James T M Towill, CC BY-SA 2.0.
  • Type: Bay
  • Description: bay in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Faslane Bay”

Places of Interest

Highlights include HMNB Clyde and Garelochhead railway station.

Military installation
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
His Majesty's Naval Base, Clyde, primarily sited at Faslane on the , is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy.

Railway station
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a railway station serving the village of , on the , in . This station is on the West Highland Line and is a boundary station for SPT.

Military installation
Photo: william craig, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Royal Naval Armaments Depot Coulport, shortened to , on in , Scotland, is the storage and loading facility for the nuclear warheads of the United Kingdom's Trident programme.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Garelochhead and Rahane.

Village
Photo: william craig, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small town on the in , Scotland. It is the nearest town to the naval base. lies 7 miles northwest of . is a few miles to the east, and to the west.

Hamlet
Photo: George Rankin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a clachan in , Scotland, on the west bank of the in the Rosneath peninsula, 2.3 miles south of the larger settlement of and 11 miles northwest by road from the town of .

Village
Photo: George Rankin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village on the open sea loch of the in , Scotland. overlooks the Rosneath Peninsula to the west and is bordered by to the east, which is the site of the Battle of Glen Fruin, one of the last clan…

Faslane

Latitude
56.0639° or 56° 3′ 50″ north
Longitude
-4.82481° or 4° 49′ 29″ west
Elevation
23 feet (7 metres)
Open location code
9C8Q357G+H3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 8593480302
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­bay
Geo­Names ID
2649633
Wiki­data ID
Q5436825
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Swedish—“Faslane” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Faslane Bay”
  • Cebuano: “Faslane Bay”
  • Dutch: “Faslane”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Faslane”
  • Norwegian: “Faslane”
  • Portuguese: “Faslane”
  • Slovenian: “Faslane Bay”
  • Swedish: “Faslane Bay”

Places with the Same Name

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Faslane Shiplift and Valiant Jetty.

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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 “Faslane”. Photo: James T M Towill, CC BY-SA 2.0.