Deer Sound
Deer Sound is a bay in Orkney Islands, Scotland. Deer Sound is situated nearby to the locality The Ness, as well as near Rerwick Head.Places of Interest
Highlights include Loch of Tankerness and Braebuster.
Loch of Tankerness
Photo: Adam Ward, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Loch of Tankerness is a large, lowland, freshwater loch on the Orkney mainland in Scotland. The loch is roughly triangular in shape and is shallow with a flat bottom that gradually deepens from west to east. It lies approximately 4 mi southeast of Kirkwall.
Braebuster
House
Photo: Mark Crook, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Braebuster is a house, which is situated 2½ miles south of Deer Sound.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rerwick Head and Tankerness.
Rerwick Head
Locality
Photo: Adam Ward, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rerwick Head is a locality, which is situated 1½ miles north of Deer Sound.
Tankerness
Village
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Tankerness is a district in the St Andrews parish in Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. Essentially a peninsula, it is about 13 kilometres south-east of Kirkwall and 1 kilometre east of Kirkwall Airport. Tankerness is situated 2 miles southwest of Deer Sound.
Deer Sound
- Type: Bay
- Category: body of water
- Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.96667° or 58° 58′ northLongitude
-2.8° or 2° 48′ westOpen location code
9CCVX58X+MXGeoNames ID
2651409
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