Point Peninsula
Point, also known as the Eye Peninsula, is a peninsula some 11 km long in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. The majority of Point is connected to the rest of the Isle of Lewis by a narrow isthmus, one mile in length and at one point barely 100 metres wide.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Peninsula
- Description: peninsula of the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “An Rubha”, “Eye Peninsula”, “Point”, “Point, Lewis”, and “Point, Outer Hebrides”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Garrabost and Shulishader.
Garrabost
Village
Photo: John Aldersey-Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Garrabost is a village in the Point peninsula isthmus on the east coast of the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. The village is one of the largest in Point, comprising Upper and Lower Garrabost, and Claypark.
Shulishader
Village
Photo: Eileen Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Shulishader is a small village with a population of around 120 people in Point, Outer Hebrides on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. Located on the north-western side of the Eye Peninsula, it overlooks Broad Bay.
Bayble
Village
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Bayble is a village in Point, on the Isle of Lewis, 6 miles east of Stornoway. Bayble is also within the parish of Stornoway. There are around 400 people living in Bayble.
Point Peninsula
- Category: landform
- Location: Western Isles, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Point Peninsula” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Eye Peninsula”
- Dutch: “Eye Peninsula”
- German: “Eye Peninsula”
- German: “Point”
- Irish: “An Rubha”
- Japanese: “ポイント”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Eye Peninsula”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Point i Ytre Hebridane”
- Scottish Gaelic: “An Rubha”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Rubha na h-Aoidh”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Rubha”
- Swedish: “Eye Peninsula”
- “An Rubha”
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Localities in the Area
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