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Ailsa Craig

Ailsa Craig is an uninhabited island in the Firth of Clyde, 9 miles off the coast of . It measures about 3⁄4 of a mile north-south by ½ a mile east-west, and rises abruptly to 1120 ft.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Ailsa Craig Castle.

Ruins
Photo: Ron Ireland, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a ruins.

Ailsa Craig

Latitude
55.2524° or 55° 15′ 9″ north
Longitude
-5.1153° or 5° 6′ 55″ west
Elevation
984 feet (300 metres)
Open location code
9C7P7V2M+XV
Open­Street­Map ID
way 495525351
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
2657627
Wiki­data ID
Q405346
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Western Panjabi—“Ailsa Craig” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Ailsa Craig”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Эйлса-Крэйг”
  • Belarusian: “Эйлса-Крэг”
  • Belarusian: “Эйлса-Крэйг”
  • Breton: “Ailsa Craig”
  • Breton: “Creag Ealasaid”
  • Catalan: “Ailsa Craig”
  • Cebuano: “Ailsa Craig (pulo sa Hiniusang Gingharian)”
  • Cebuano: “Ailsa Craig”
  • Chinese: “艾爾薩岩”
  • Czech: “Ailsa Craig”
  • Danish: “Ailsa Craig”
  • Dutch: “Ailsa Craig”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ايلسا كرايج”
  • Esperanto: “Ailsa Craig”
  • Estonian: “Ailsa Craig”
  • Finnish: “Ailsa Craig”
  • French: “Ailsa Craig”
  • German: “Ailsa Craig”
  • Irish: “Creag Ealasaid”
  • Japanese: “アルサ・クレイグ”
  • Japanese: “アルサ・クレイグ島”
  • Japanese: “アルサ・クレッグ”
  • Japanese: “アルサ・クレッグ島”
  • Japanese: “アルサクレイグ”
  • Japanese: “アルサクレイグ島”
  • Japanese: “アルザクレイグ島”
  • Japanese: “アルサクレッグ”
  • Japanese: “アルサクレッグ島”
  • Japanese: “アルザクレッグ島”
  • Japanese: “エールサ・クレーグ”
  • Japanese: “エールサ・クレーグ島”
  • Japanese: “エールサクレーグ”
  • Japanese: “エールサクレーグ島”
  • Japanese: “エールザクレーグ島”
  • Japanese: “エイルサ・クレイグ”
  • Japanese: “エイルサ・クレイグ島”
  • Japanese: “エイルサクレイグ”
  • Japanese: “エイルサクレイグ島”
  • Japanese: “エイルザクレイグ島”
  • Manx: “Creg Ealish”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ailsa Craig”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ailsa Craig”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Creag Ealasaid”
  • Norwegian: “Ailsa Craig”
  • Polish: “Ailsa Craig”
  • Portuguese: “Ailsa Craig”
  • Russian: “Эйлса-Крег”
  • Russian: “Эйлса-Крейг”
  • Scots: “Ailsa Craig”
  • Scots: “Ailsae Craig”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Aillse Creag”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Ailsa Craig”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Creag Alasdair”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Creag Ealasaid”
  • Spanish: “Ailsa Craig”
  • Swedish: “Ailsa Craig, Storbritannien”
  • Swedish: “Ailsa Craig”
  • Welsh: “Ailsa Craig”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایلزا کریگ”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Ailsa Craig”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.