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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include The Gloup and Braebuster.
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
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 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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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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