Craiglethy
Craiglethy is a small island/skerry off Fowlsheugh on the east coast of Aberdeenshire, Scotland in the North Sea. As it is part of Fowlsheugh, it is an SSSI, with many seabirds and seals living on it.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Fowlsheugh and Dunnottar Castle.
Fowlsheugh
Nature reserve
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Fowlsheugh is a coastal nature reserve in Kincardineshire, northeast Scotland, known for its 70-metre-high cliff formations and habitat supporting prolific seabird nesting colonies.
Dunnottar Castle
Castle
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Dunnottar Castle is a ruined medieval fortress located upon a rocky headland on the northeast coast of Scotland, about 2 miles south of Stonehaven in Aberdeenshire. Dunnottar Castle is situated 1½ miles north of Craiglethy.
Dunnicaer
Archaeological site
Photo: Andrew Wood, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dunnicaer, or Dun-na-caer, is a precipitous sea stack just off the coast of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, between Dunnottar Castle and Stonehaven. Despite the unusual difficulty of access, in 1832 Pictish symbol stones were found on the summit and 21st-century archaeology has discovered evidence of a Pictish hill fort which may have incorporated the stones in its structure. Dunnicaer is situated 2 miles north of Craiglethy.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Crawton and Catterline.
Crawton
Locality
Photo: Stuart Reid, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Crawton is a former fishing community on the southeast Aberdeenshire coast in Scotland, deserted since 1927. Approximately three miles south of Stonehaven, Crawton Farm lies to the north of Catterline above a shingle beach.
Catterline
Village
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Catterline is a coastal village on the North Sea in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is situated about 5 miles south of Stonehaven; nearby to the north are Dunnottar Castle and Fowlsheugh Nature Reserve. Catterline is situated 2 miles southwest of Craiglethy.
Stonehaven
Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Stonehaven is a small fishing port in Aberdeenshire in North East Scotland, 15 miles south of Aberdeen. Its main attraction is Dunnottar Castle, scenically perched on a headland south of town.
Craiglethy
- Type: Islet
- Description: island in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
- Categories: island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.92224° or 56° 55′ 20″ northLongitude
-2.19888° or 2° 11′ 56″ westElevation
197 feet (60 metres)Open location code
9C8VWRC2+VCOpenStreetMap ID
way 3468508OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=isletGeoNames ID
2652132Wikidata ID
Q5181713
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Craiglethy” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Craiglethy”
- Dutch: “Craiglethy”
- Irish: “Creag Liathach”
- Swedish: “Craiglethy”
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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 “Craiglethy”. Photo: Covalent, CC BY-SA 2.5.