Whiddy Island
Whiddy Island is an island near the head of Bantry Bay in Ireland. It is approximately 5.6 km long and 2.4 km wide. The topography comprises gently-rolling glacial till, with relatively fertile soil.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Pam Brophy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bantry Aerodrome and U.S. Naval Air Station Whiddy Island Ireland.
Bantry Aerodrome
Aerodrome
Photo: Pam Brophy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bantry Aerodrome is a small privately owned airfield 1.5 NM west south-west of Bantry in County Cork, Ireland. It was constructed in the 1970s by the Rowa Pharmaceutical Corporation.
U.S. Naval Air Station Whiddy Island Ireland
Aerodrome
U.S. Naval Air Station Whiddy Island was a seaplane station operated during the last year of World War I and commissioned 4 July 1918. Located on Whiddy Island in Bantry Bay, County Cork, Ireland, it was also known as Bantry Bay Station.
Bantry House
Photo: Schorle, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bantry House is a historic house with gardens in Bantry, County Cork, Ireland. Originally built in the early 18th century, it has been owned and occupied by the White family since the mid-18th century. Bantry House is situated 3 km southeast of Whiddy Island.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bantry and Ballylickey.
Bantry
Photo: AFBorchert, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bantry is a town at the head of Bantry Bay in County Cork in southwest Ireland. In 2022 it had a population of 2900. The southwest coast of Cork is divided into three peninsulas, like claws on the foot of Ireland.
Ballylickey
Village
Photo: Pam Brophy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ballylickey or Ballylicky is a village on the N71 national secondary road and Bantry Bay near Bantry, County Cork, Ireland. The Ouvane River flows into Bantry Bay at Ballylickey. Ballylickey is situated 6 km northeast of Whiddy Island.
Glengarriff
Photo: Valdoria, Public domain.
Glengarriff is a village at the base of the Beara Peninsula of County Cork in southwest Ireland. It's in an inlet of Bantry Bay, and became a tourist resort in the late 19th century.
Whiddy Island
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Ireland
- Category: landform
- Location: County Cork, Munster, Southwest Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Whiddy Island from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Whiddy Island” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Whiddy Island”
- Breton: “Faoide”
- Catalan: “illa de Whiddy”
- Catalan: “Illa de Whiddy”
- Cebuano: “Whiddy Island”
- Chinese: “惠迪岛”
- Chinese: “惠迪島”
- Dutch: “Whiddy Island”
- French: “Whiddy Island”
- German: “Oilean Faoide”
- German: “Oileán Faoide”
- German: “Whiddy Island”
- Hebrew: “וידי איילנד”
- Irish: “Faoide”
- Irish: “Oileán Faoide”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Oileán Faoide”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Whiddy Island”
- Polish: “Whiddy”
- Swedish: “Whiddy Island”
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Highlights include Kilmore Lakes and Rabbit Island.
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Whiddy Island”. Photo: Pam Brophy, CC BY-SA 2.0.