Ardnamurchan Point
Ardnamurchan Point is a peninsula in Highland, Scotland where the Ardnamurchan Lighthouse is situated.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Cape
- Description: western end of the Ardnamurchan peninsula in Highland, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Point of Ardnamurchan”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ardnamurchan Lighthouse and Corrachadh Mòr.
Ardnamurchan Lighthouse
Photo: Sionnach1, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ardnamurchan Lighthouse is a listed 19th century lighthouse, located on Ardnamurchan Point in Lochaber part of the Highland council area of Scotland. The lighthouse with its 36-metre-tall, pink granite tower was completed in 1849 to a design by Alan Stevenson.
Corrachadh Mòr
Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Corrachadh Mòr is a headland on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula in Lochaber, Highland, west of Scotland. Notable for being the most westerly point on the island of Great Britain, it is 37 km further west than Land's End in Cornwall.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Portuairk and Achosnich.
Portuairk
Hamlet
Portuairk is a crofting township, at the western end of the Ardnamurchan peninsula, Lochaber, Highland, Scotland. It is the most westerly settlement on the British mainland, although nearby Kilchoan is the most westerly village.
Achosnich
Hamlet
Photo: Dave Fergusson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Achosnich is a crofting township in Ardnamurchan, Argyle within the Scottish council area of Highland. It is close to Ardnamurchan Point. Achosnich is located at the end of the B8007 road which is the major road of the Ardnamurchan peninsula.
Sanna
Hamlet
Photo: Dave Fergusson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sanna is a hamlet at the far western tip of the Scottish peninsula of Ardnamurchan, in Lochaber, Highland. It is one of the most westerly settlements on the mainland of Great Britain, and consists of a small collection of crofts and houses around a series of unspoilt sandy beaches.
Ardnamurchan Point
- Category: landform
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.72609° or 56° 43′ 34″ northLongitude
-6.22592° or 6° 13′ 33″ westElevation
3 feet (1 metre)Open location code
9C8MPQGF+CJOpenStreetMap ID
node 5593109937OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Ardnamurchan Point” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Point of Ardnamurchan”
- Dutch: “Ardnamurchan Point”
- French: “Ardnamurchan Point”
- German: “Point of Ardnamurchan”
- German: “Rubha Aird nam Murchan”
- Irish: “Rubha Áird nam Murchan”
- Irish: “Rubha Àird nam Murchan”
- Italian: “Ardnamurchan Point”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ardnamurchan Point”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ardnamurchan Point”
- Norwegian: “Ardnamurchan Point”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ardnamurchan Point”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Rubha Aird nam Murchan”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Rubha Àird nam Murchan”
- Swedish: “Point of Ardnamurchan”
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