Black Isle
The Black Isle is a peninsula within Ross and Cromarty, in the Scottish Highlands. It includes the towns of Cromarty and Fortrose, and the villages of Culbokie, Resolis, Jemimaville, Rosemarkie, Avoch, Munlochy, Tore, and North Kessock, as well as numerous smaller settlements.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Peninsula
- Description: peninsula in Scotland
- Also known as: “Ardmeanach”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Killen and Munlochy.
Killen
Village
Killen is a small remote rural hamlet, located 2 miles northwest of Avoch and Fortrose, in the Black Isle, Ross-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. Killen is situated 1½ miles northeast of Black Isle.
Munlochy
Village
Photo: Dr Julian Paren, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Munlochy is a small village, lying at the head of Munlochy Bay, in the Black Isle in Ross and Cromarty, in northern Scotland. There are few early records of a settlement, but it seems likely that Munlochy expanded in the 1760s due to quarry workers extracting stone nearby to build Fort George on the far side of the Moray Firth. Munlochy is situated 2½ miles south of Black Isle.
Avoch
Village
Photo: Keith Salvesen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Avoch is a harbour-village located on the south-east coast of the Black Isle, on the Moray Firth. Avoch is situated 3 miles east of Black Isle.
Black Isle
- Category: landform
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Urdu—“Black Isle” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Բլեք Այլ”
- Basque: “Black Isle”
- Bengali: “ব্ল্যাক ইজল”
- Cebuano: “Black Isle”
- Chinese: “黑岛”
- Chinese: “黑島”
- Dutch: “Black Isle”
- Esperanto: “Nigra Insulo”
- French: “Black Isle”
- German: “Black Isle”
- Gujarati: “બ્લેક આઇલ”
- Irish: “An t-Eilean Dubh”
- Japanese: “ブラック・アイル”
- Japanese: “ブラック・アイル半島”
- Kannada: “ಬ್ಲಾಕ್ ಐಲ್”
- Korean: “블랙 섬”
- Lithuanian: “Blek Ailas”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Black Isle”
- Polish: “Black Isle”
- Portuguese: “Black Isle”
- Russian: “Блэк-Айл”
- Russian: “Блэн-Айл”
- Scots: “Black Isle”
- Scottish Gaelic: “an t-Eilean Dubh”
- Scottish Gaelic: “An t-Eilean Dubh”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Black Isle”
- Spanish: “Black Isle”
- Swedish: “Black Isle”
- Tamil: “ப்ளாக் ஐஸ்லே”
- Telugu: “బ్లాక్ ఐల్”
- Urdu: “بلیک یسلی”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Belmaduthy and Knockbain.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Mounteagle transmitting station and Mount Eagle.
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