Covesea Skerries

Covesea Skerries is a reef in Moray, Scotland. Covesea Skerries is situated nearby to the locality Covesea Village, as well as near the suburb Lossiemouth.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Covesea Skerries Lighthouse and Lossiemouth Airport.

Covesea Skerries Lighthouse

Lighthouse

Photo: Pemm, Public domain.

Covesea Skerries Lighthouse, originally belonging to the Northern Lighthouse Board, is built on top of a small headland on the south coast of the Moray Firth at Covesea, near Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland.

Lossiemouth Airport

Aerodrome

Photo: Pemm, Public domain.

Royal Air Force Lossiemouth or RAF Lossiemouth is a Royal Air Force station located on the western edge of the town of Lossiemouth in Moray, north-east Scotland. Lossiemouth Airport is situated 1½ miles southeast of Covesea Skerries.

Moray Golf Club

Golf course

Moray Golf Club is situated in Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland. The club has two eighteen-hole courses appropriately called the Old Course and the New Course. Moray Golf Club is situated 1½ miles southeast of Covesea Skerries.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Duffus and Lossiemouth.

Duffus

Village

Photo: Lyall Duffus, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Duffus is a village and parish in Moray, Scotland. It is best known for the nearby Duffus Castle, St. Peters' Kirk, and Spynie Palace. Duffus is situated 2½ miles southwest of Covesea Skerries.

Lossiemouth

Photo: Billreid, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Lossiemouth is a village on the coast of Moray in North East Scotland, with a population in 2016 of 7870. It developed as a fishing port in the 18th and 19th centuries, but the harbour is small and that industry has gone.

Hopeman

Village

Photo: Craig Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Hopeman is a seaside village in Moray, Scotland, it is situated on the coast of the Moray Firth, founded in 1805 to house and re-employ people displaced during the Highland clearances. Hopeman is situated 3½ miles southwest of Covesea Skerries.

Covesea Skerries

Type: Reef
Also known as: “Coversea Scars”
Category: landform
Location: Moray, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

57.72938° or 57° 43′ 46″ north

Longitude

-3.3516° or 3° 21′ 6″ west

Open location code

9C9RPJHX+Q9

GeoNames ID

2652216

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