Dunvegan
Dunvegan is a small community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Inverness County on Cape Breton Island. The name is derived from Dunvegan on the Isle of Skye in Scotland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village
- Description: human settlement in Nova Scotia, Canada
- Also known as: “Dunvegan, Nova Scotia”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Inverness.
Inverness
Town
Photo: Quintinsoloviev, CC BY 4.0.
Inverness is a Canadian rural community in Inverness County, Nova Scotia. It is about an hour's drive north from the Canso Causeway and about an hour south from Cape Breton Highlands National Park. In 2021, its population was 1,228, down 1.6% from 2016. Inverness is situated 9 km southwest of Dunvegan.
Dunvegan
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Inverness County, Nova Scotia, Atlantic Canada, Canada, North America
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Latitude
46.2977° or 46° 17′ 52″ northLongitude
-61.22912° or 61° 13′ 45″ westElevation
162 metres (531 feet)Open location code
87RW7QXC+39OpenStreetMap ID
node 1324025838OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Scottish Gaelic—“Dunvegan” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Dunvegan”
- Irish: “Dùn Bheagain”
- Irish: “Dùn-bheagan”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Dùn Bheagain, Alba Nuadh”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Dùn Bheagain”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Dùn-bheagan”
- “Dùn-bheagan”
- “Dunvegan”
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