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 military airfield 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
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.72938° or 57° 43′ 46″ northLongitude
-3.3516° or 3° 21′ 6″ westOpen location code
9C9RPJHX+Q9GeoNames ID
2652216
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