Calf of Man
Calf of Man is an island off the southwest tip of the Isle of Man. It measures about one mile by one mile and is a wildlife reserve owned by Manx National Heritage. It has no permanent residents but in summer has a couple of bird wardens.Photo: M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kitterland and Chicken Rock.
Kitterland
Island
Photo: N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kitterland is an islet in the Calf Sound between the Isle of Man and the Calf of Man in the Irish Sea. Kitterland is currently owned by the Manx National Trust and has a wealth of bird and marine wildlife.
Chicken Rock
Island
Photo: Andy Stephenson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chicken Rock is an isolated rock and the southernmost island administered by the Isle of Man. Situated in the Irish Sea, it lies approximately 4.5 kilometres southwest of Spanish Head on the Manx mainland, and about 1 mile south of the Calf of Man.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cregneash.
Cregneash
Hamlet
Cregneash or Cregneish is a small village and tourist destination in the extreme south-west of the Isle of Man, about 1 mi from Port Erin. Most of the village is now part of a living museum run by Manx National Heritage.
Calf of Man
- Type: Island
- Description: island
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Rushen, Isle of Man, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.0528° or 54° 3′ 10″ northLongitude
-4.8151° or 4° 48′ 54″ westElevation
36 metres (118 feet)Open location code
9C6Q353M+4XOpenStreetMap ID
way 25987471OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
3042258Wikidata ID
Q125389
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Vietnamese—“Calf of Man” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Calf of Man”
- Chinese: “卡夫曼岛”
- Chinese: “卡夫曼島”
- Chinese: “小曼島”
- Danish: “Calf of Man”
- Danish: “Isle Calf of Man”
- Dutch: “Calf of Man”
- Finnish: “Calf of Man”
- French: “Calf of Man”
- French: “Yn Cholloo”
- German: “Calf of Man”
- Indonesian: “Calf of Man”
- Irish: “An Cholú”
- Irish: “Yn Cholloo”
- Japanese: “カフ・オブ・マン”
- Lithuanian: “Kaf of Menas”
- Manx: “Yn Cholloo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Calf of Man”
- Norwegian: “Calf of Man”
- Polish: “Calf of Man”
- Portuguese: “Calf of Man”
- Russian: “Каф-оф-Мэн”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Eireag Mhanainn”
- Spanish: “Calf of Man”
- Swedish: “Calf of Man”
- Ukrainian: “Кальф оф Мен”
- Ukrainian: “Кальф-оф-Мен”
- Vietnamese: “Calf of Man”
- “Calf of Man”
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