Arisaig
Arisaig is a village on the coast of Lochaber in the Scottish Highlands, with a population of about 300. It stands on the "Road to the Isles", the traditional route from the south via Fort William to Mallaig and thence to Skye.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 300 residents
- Description: human settlement in Highland, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Arasaig”
Photo: Dave Fergusson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Arisaig railway station and Làrach Mòr.
Arisaig railway station
Railway station
Photo: Thryduulf, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Arisaig railway station serves the village of Arisaig on the west coast of the Highland region of Scotland. This station is on the West Highland Line, measured 32 miles 2 chains from the former Banavie Junction, near Fort William, between Beasdale and Morar on the way to Mallaig.
Làrach Mòr
Ruins
Làrach Mòr is a garden in Lochaber, in the western Highlands of Scotland. It lies 1 kilometre east of Arisaig, in the crook of a bend in the A830. It was developed during the 20th century as a collection of Rhododendrons, and is included in the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland, the national listing of significant gardens.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Back of Keppoch.
Back of Keppoch
Hamlet
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Back of Keppoch is a small coastal settlement in the northwest Scottish Highlands, 40 miles west of Fort William near to the A830 road to Mallaig. The Back of Keppoch is north of Arisaig and south of Morar.
Arisaig
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Inverness-shire, Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.9108° or 56° 54′ 39″ northLongitude
-5.8432° or 5° 50′ 36″ westPopulation
300Elevation
39 feet (12 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB ARGOpen location code
9C8PW564+8POpenStreetMap ID
node 26868177OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Arisaig” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Arisaig”
- Czech: “Arisaig”
- Dutch: “Arisaig”
- French: “Arisaig”
- Galician: “Arisaig”
- German: “Arisaig”
- Hebrew: “אריסאיג”
- Irish: “Árasaig”
- Irish: “Àrasaig”
- Italian: “Arisaig”
- Japanese: “アリセグ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Arisaig”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Arisaig”
- Norwegian: “Arisaig”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Àrasaig”
- Slovak: “Arisaig”
- Swedish: “Arisaig”
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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 “Arisaig”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.