The Compass

The Compass is a peak in Shetland Islands, Scotland and has an elevation of 335 feet. The Compass is situated nearby to the hamlet Grutness, as well as near Sumburgh.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sumburgh Airport and Sumburgh Head Lighthouse.

Sumburgh Airport

Aerodrome

Photo: Ronnie Robertson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Sumburgh Airport is the main airport serving the Shetland Islands, Scotland. It is located on the southern tip of the mainland in the parish of Dunrossness, 20 miles south of Lerwick.

Sumburgh Head Lighthouse

Lighthouse

Photo: Nicholas Mutton, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Sumburgh Head Lighthouse is a lighthouse on Sumburgh Head at the southern tip of the Mainland of Shetland.

The Ness of Burgi fort is an iron-age promontory fort in the Old Scatness archaeological site on the Ness of Burgi, a narrow finger of land reaching south from the Scat Ness in the far south of the island of Mainland, Shetland in Scotland.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sumburgh and Scatness.

Sumburgh

Photo: Hajotthu, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Sumburgh is a village near the southern tip of Mainland in the Shetland Islands, with a population in 2011 of about 100. Its main attraction is Jarlshof, continuously inhabited for 4000 years.

Scatness

Village

Photo: Douglas Law, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Scatness is a settlement on the headland of Scat Ness at the southern tip of Mainland, Shetland, Scotland, across the West Voe of Sumburgh from Sumburgh Head and close to Sumburgh Airport, the Shetland Islands' main airport.

Exnaboe

Hamlet

Photo: Mike Pennington, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Exnaboe, locally referred to as 'bö', is a settlement in the Virkie area of the parish of Dunrossness, South Mainland, Shetland, Scotland, overlooking Sumburgh Airport, and the Pool of Virkie.

The Compass

Type: Peak with an elevation of 335 feet
Category: landform
Location: Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

59.8674° or 59° 52′ 3″ north

Longitude

-1.27307° or 1° 16′ 23″ west

Elevation

335 feet (102 metres)

Open location code

9CFWVP8G+XQ

OpenStreetMap ID

node 13382153999

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=peak

GeoNames ID

12609999

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