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Carbost

Carbost is a small village straggling along the shore of Loch Harport in , in the Scottish Inner Hebrides. The main reason to come here is the Talisker Distillery.
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  • Type: Village with 142 residents
  • Description: village on the south shore of Loch Harport on the Isle of Skye
  • Also known as: “Carbost, Loch Harport”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cnoc nan Speireag and Talisker distillery.

Peak
Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a peak.

Distillery
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is an island single malt Scotch whisky distillery based in Carbost, on the Peninsula on the . The distillery is operated by Diageo and Taliskers’ 10 year old whisky has been nominated as part of their Classic Malts series.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Drynoch and Sàtran.

Hamlet
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is a settlement on the south east tip of Loch Harport on the west coast of in the of Scotland. It is in the council area of Highland. The River runs through the village, flowing down from Glen into the loch.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet.

Village
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is a small village on north west of the on the shore of Loch Harport. is Gaelic for "harbour of the ships". It was founded by crofters from in 1921. is situated 2½ miles northwest of Carbost.

Carbost

Latitude
57.3015° or 57° 18′ 6″ north
Longitude
-6.3532° or 6° 21′ 12″ west
Population
142
Elevation
52 feet (16 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB CAB
Open location code
9C9M8J2W+JP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 398841693
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2653831
Wiki­data ID
Q987762
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Swedish—“Carbost” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Carbost”
  • Cebuano: “Carbost”
  • Czech: “Carbost”
  • Czech: “obec na ostrově Skye”
  • Dutch: “Carbost”
  • French: “Carbost”
  • German: “Carbost”
  • Irish: “Càrrabost”
  • Italian: “Carbost”
  • Japanese: “カーボスト”
  • Persian: “کاربوست، لاک هارپورت”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Càrrabost Loch Harport”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Càrrabost, Minginis”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Càrrabost”
  • Swedish: “Carbost”
  • “Carbost”
  • “Carbost - Càrrabost”
  • “Càrrabost”

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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 “Carbost”. Photo: Chmee2, CC BY-SA 3.0.