Calve Island
Calve Island is an uninhabited low-lying island off the east coast of the Isle of Mull in Argyll and Bute on the west coast of Scotland. A whitewashed farmhouse with substantial outbuildings stands on the western shore, used as a summer residence.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Colin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mull Little Theatre and Mull Museum.
Mull Little Theatre
Theater building
Mull Little Theatre was a theatre on the Isle of Mull in the Inner Scottish Hebrides. Built from the shell of an old byre in 1963 by Barrie and Marianne Hesketh, it began as the Thursday Theatre, an entertainment for the paying guests of the Druimard Guest House.
Tobermory High School
School
Photo: Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tobermory High School is the only secondary school on the Isle of Mull. It is located in Tobermory, at the northern end of the island. Its feeder primary schools are at Tobermory, Salen, Dervaig, Lochdon, and Ulva Ferry.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tobermory and Bonnavoulin.
Tobermory
Photo: Traveler100, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tobermory is the main settlement on the island of Mull, in the Scottish Inner Hebrides. It has the most accommodation and other amenities, and is the obvious base for visiting the island.
Bonnavoulin
Village
Bonnavoulin or Bunavullin is a village on the Morvern peninsula in the Highlands of Scotland. Situated at the northern terminus of the B849, it is about 10 miles from Lochaline and on the eastern shore of the Sound of Mull opposite the isle of Mull and is in the Highland Council area.
Dervaig
Village
Dervaig is a small village on the Isle of Mull off the west coast of Scotland. The village is within the parish of Kilninian and Kilmore, and is situated on the B8073 roughly midway between Tobermory and Calgary. In 1961 it had a population of 82. Dervaig is situated 6 miles west of Calve Island.
Calve Island
- Type: Island
- Description: uninhabited island on the east coast of the Isle of Mull in Argyll and Bute on the west coast of Scotland
- Categories: tidal island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.61864° or 56° 37′ 7″ northLongitude
-6.0382° or 6° 2′ 18″ westElevation
30 feet (9 metres)Open location code
9C8MJX96+FPOpenStreetMap ID
way 730876539OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
2653964Wikidata ID
Q2987635
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Calve Island” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Calve”
- Catalan: “Illa Calve”
- Cebuano: “Calve Island”
- Chinese: “卡尔夫岛”
- Chinese: “卡爾夫島”
- French: “Calve Island”
- French: “île Calve”
- French: “Île Calve”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Calve Island”
- Russian: “Калв”
- Swedish: “Calve Island”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Upper Druimfin and Strongarbh.
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Highlights include Eilean na Beithe and Climbing Net.
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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 “Calve Island”. Photo: Colin, CC BY-SA 3.0.