Carbost
Carbost is a small village straggling along the shore of Loch Harport in Skye, in the Scottish Inner Hebrides. The main reason to come here is the Talisker Distillery.
- 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”, “Càrrabost Loch Harport”, “Càrrabost, Minginis”, and “obec na ostrově Skye”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Cnoc nan Speireag and Talisker distillery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Drynoch and Sàtran.
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Village
Carbost
- Category: locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.3015° or 57° 18′ 6″ north
Longitude
-6.3532° or 6° 21′ 12″ west
Population
142
Elevation
52 feet (16 metres)
UN/LOCODE
GB CAB
Open location code
9C9M8J2W+JP
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Urdu—“Carbost” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Carbost”
- Cebuano: “Carbost”
- Czech: “Carbost”
- Danish: “Carbost (Loch Harport)”
- Danish: “Carbost”
- Dutch: “Carbost”
- French: “Carbost”
- German: “Carbost”
- Irish: “Càrrabost”
- Italian: “Carbost”
- Japanese: “カーボスト”
- Persian: “کاربوست، لاک هارپورت”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Càrrabost”
- Swedish: “Carbost”
- Urdu: “کاربوسٹ، لوک ہارپورٹ”
- “Carbost - Càrrabost”
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Places to explore: Lòn Bàn and Carbostbeg.
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