Green Island
Green Island is an islet in Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, Scotland. Green Island is situated nearby to the hamlet High Barracks, as well as near the locality Crane Rock.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Helensburgh Central railway station and Hill House.
Helensburgh Central railway station
Railway station
Photo: Richard Sutcliffe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Helensburgh Central railway station serves the town of Helensburgh on the north shore of the Firth of Clyde, near Glasgow, Scotland. The station is a terminus on the North Clyde Line, sited 24 miles 31 chains from Glasgow Queen Street, measured via Singer and Maryhill. Helensburgh Central railway station is situated 1½ miles northeast of Green Island.
Hill House
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Hill House is a private villa in Helensburgh, Scotland, designed between 1902 and 1904 by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife, Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh. Hill House is situated 2½ miles northeast of Green Island.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Helensburgh and Portkil.
Helensburgh
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Helensburgh is a town in Argyll and Bute, on the north bank of the River Clyde 30 miles west of Glasgow, at the opening of Gare Loch. It developed from the 19th century once ferries and the railway connected it to Glasgow: wealthy business people built their villas here, and made sure to keep heavy industry away from their bosky avenues.
Portkil
Hamlet
Portkil is a village on the north shore of the Firth of Clyde in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, and is at the south end of the Rosneath Peninsula. Portkil is situated 1½ miles west of Green Island.
Rhu
Village
Photo: Brian D Osborne, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rhu is a village and historic parish on the east shore of the Gare Loch in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. The traditional spelling of its name was Row, but it was changed in the 1920s so that outsiders would pronounce it correctly. Rhu is situated 2 miles north of Green Island.
Green Island
- Type: Islet
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.99053° or 55° 59′ 26″ northLongitude
-4.76651° or 4° 45′ 59″ westElevation
3 feet (1 metre)Open location code
9C7QX6RM+69OpenStreetMap ID
way 1324500064OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=isletGeoNames ID
12110815
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