Tankerness
Tankerness is a district in the St Andrews parish in Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. Essentially a peninsula, it is about 13 kilometres south-east of Kirkwall and 1 kilometre east of Kirkwall Airport.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Kirkwall Airport and Mine Howe.
Kirkwall Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Ken Walton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kirkwall Airport is the main airport serving Orkney in Scotland. It is located 2.5 NM southeast of Kirkwall and is owned by Highlands and Islands Airports Limited. The airport is used by Loganair. Kirkwall Airport is situated 1½ miles west of Tankerness.
Mine Howe
Archaeological site
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Mine Howe is an Iron Age subterranean man-made chamber dug 6 meters deep inside a large mound. It is located in the Tankerness area of Orkney, Scotland, about 5 miles southeast of Kirkwall, the capital of Orkney.
Loch of Tankerness
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Loch of Tankerness is a large, lowland, freshwater loch on the Orkney mainland in Scotland. The loch is roughly triangular in shape and is shallow with a flat bottom that gradually deepens from west to east. It lies approximately 4 mi southeast of Kirkwall.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include St Andrews and Head of Holland.
St Andrews
Locality
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St Andrews is a parish on Mainland, Orkney in Scotland. It is located east of the town of Kirkwall and the parish of St Ola and lies north of Holm and west of Deerness.
Head of Holland
Locality
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Head of Holland is a locality, which is situated 3 miles northwest of Tankerness.
Rerwick Head
Locality
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Rerwick Head is a locality, which is situated 3½ miles northeast of Tankerness.
Tankerness
- Type: Village
- Description: village in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.95247° or 58° 57′ 9″ northLongitude
-2.85396° or 2° 51′ 14″ westElevation
69 feet (21 metres)Open location code
9CCVX42W+XCOpenStreetMap ID
node 918034134OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to French—“Tankerness” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Tankerness”
- Dutch: “Tankerness”
- French: “Tankerness”
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