Craig Head
Craig Head is a point in Fife, North East Scotland, Scotland. Craig Head is situated nearby to the town Newport-on-Tay, as well as near the locality Stannergate.Places of Interest
Highlights include RRS Discovery and Tannadice Park.
RRS Discovery
RRS Discovery is a barque-rigged auxiliary steamship built in Dundee, Scotland for Antarctic research. Launched in 1901, she was the last traditional wooden three-masted ship to be built in the United Kingdom.Tannadice Park
Stadium
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Tannadice Park, officially known as The CalForth Construction Arena for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Dundee, Scotland. It is the home ground of Dundee United, who have played at Tannadice since the club was founded as Dundee Hibernian in 1909. Tannadice Park is situated 2 miles northwest of Craig Head.
HMS Unicorn
Museum
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HMS Unicorn is a surviving sailing frigate of the successful Leda class, although the original design had been modified by the time that the Unicorn was built, to incorporate a circular stern and "small-timber" system of construction.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Newport-on-Tay and Craigiebank.
Newport-on-Tay
Town
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Newport-on-Tay is a town in the north-east of Fife in Scotland. The Fife Coastal Path passes through Newport-on-Tay. The area itself has views of the two bridges that cross the River Tay and distant views of the Scottish Highlands.
Craigiebank
Suburb
Craigiebank is an area of eastern Dundee, Scotland. It borders three other areas of the city: West Ferry to the east, Pitkerro to the north, Baxter Park and East Port to the south-west.
Dundee
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dundee is an industrial city and port, historically part of Angus county in northeast Scotland. It stands on the north bank of the River Tay, which here broadens out into the North Sea, and in 2022 had a population of 148,000.
Craig Head
- Type: Point
- Category: landform
- Location: Fife, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
56.45° or 56° 27′ northLongitude
-2.93333° or 2° 56′ westElevation
3 feet (1 metre)Open location code
9C8VC3X8+XMGeoNames ID
2652139
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