Acha
Acha is a small hamlet on the Scottish island of Coll.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Acha, Coll”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dùn an Achaidh and Coll Airport.
Dùn an Achaidh
Archaeological site
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Dùn an Achaidh, sometimes Anglicised as Dun Acha, is a dun located near the village of Acha on the Inner Hebridean island of Coll. It is considered the best preserved dun on the island.
Coll Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Gordon Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Coll Island Airport is located 5 NM west southwest of Arinagour on the island of Coll in the Inner Hebrides. Highland Airways who originally operated the route to Oban went into administration in 2010, but a new operator, Hebridean Air Services now operates the route under a PSO with flights to Oban and Tiree using Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander aircraft.
Dùn Anlaimh
Archaeological site
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Dùn Anlaimh, also known as Dùn Amhlaidh, and Eilean nan Cinneachan, is a crannog, located within Loch nan Cinneachan on the Inner Hebridean island of Coll.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Coll and Arinagour.
Coll
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Coll is an island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It's about 12 miles long by 3 miles wide and in 2011 had a population of 195, mostly in the ferry port of Arinagour.
Arinagour
Village
Photo: Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Arinagour is a village on the island of Coll, in the Argyll and Bute council area of Scotland. It is the main settlement on the island, and the location of the island's ferry terminal. It has a population of around 50. Arinagour is situated 2½ miles northeast of Acha.
Acha
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.60128° or 56° 36′ 5″ northLongitude
-6.58622° or 6° 35′ 10″ westElevation
125 feet (38 metres)Open location code
9C8MJC27+GGOpenStreetMap ID
node 7047239663OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Scottish Gaelic—“Acha” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Acha”
- Dutch: “Acha”
- French: “Acha”
- Irish: “An t-Achadh”
- Scottish Gaelic: “An t-Achadh”
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