Deerness

Deerness is a quoad sacra parish and peninsula in Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. It is about 13.5 kilometres south east of Kirkwall. Deerness forms a part of the civil parish of St Andrews and Deerness.

Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include The Gloup and St Ninian’s Church, Skaill.

The Gloup

Photo: Stephen McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Gloup is a collapsed sea cave in the Mull Head Nature Reserve in the islands of Orkney, Scotland. The name derives from the Old Norse "gluppa", meaning a chasm.

Braebuster

House

Photo: Mark Crook, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Braebuster is a house, which is situated 2 miles southwest of Deerness.

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 3½ miles northwest of Deerness.

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 3½ miles west of Deerness.

Deerness

Type: Peninsula
Description: peninsula and ecclesiastical parish on Mainland, Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK
Categories: parish and landform
Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

58.95° or 58° 57′ north

Longitude

-2.75° or 2° 45′ west

Elevation

243 feet (74 metres)

United Nations Location Code

GB EER

Open location code

9CCVW7X2+X2

GeoNames ID

2651411

Wikidata ID

Q5250977

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Swedish—“Deerness” goes by many names.

Basque: “Deerness”
Bulgarian: “Дернес”
Cebuano: “Deerness”
German: “Deerness”
Hebrew: “דירנס”
Old Norse: “Dyrnes”
Scots: “Derness”
Swedish: “Deerness”

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