Dunoon
Dunoon is the ferry port and only town on the Cowal peninsula, in Argyll and Bute in the Scottish Highlands. It's 30 miles from Glasgow yet cut off by Loch Long to the east and Loch Fyne to the west.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bishop’s Glen Reservoir and Cowal Community Hospital.
Bishop’s Glen Reservoir
Reservoir
Bishop's Glen Reservoir, also known as Dunoon Reservoir, used to be the source for drinking water for the town of Dunoon, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, a function now satisfied via Loch Eck.
Cowal Community Hospital
Hospital
Photo: John Ferguson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cowal Community Hospital is a community hospital in Dunoon, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Highland.
Loch Loskin
Lake
Photo: william craig, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Loch Loskin is a freshwater loch in Ardnadam, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. The outflow from the loch is the Milton Burn, which winds its way through Dunoon to the Firth of Clyde. The A885 from Sandbank, known as the "High Road" locally, passes the loch.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Inverkip and Hunters Quay.
Inverkip
Photo: Dave souza, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Inverkip is a village in Inverclyde, the western part of Clydeside in the Central Belt of Scotland, best known for its large marina. In 2022 its population was 3500.
Hunters Quay
Village
Photo: Dave Conner, CC BY 2.0.
Hunters Quay is a village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Situated between Kirn to the south and Ardnadam to the north, Hunters Quay is the main base of Western Ferries, operating between Hunters Quay and McInroy's Point.
Kirn
Village
Photo: william craig, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kirn is a village on the Cowal Peninsula, in Argyll and Bute in the Scottish Highlands on the west shore of the Firth of Clyde on the Cowal peninsula. It now forms part of the continuous habitation between Dunoon and Hunters Quay, where the Holy Loch joins the Firth of Clyde.
Dunoon
- Type: Town with 7,660 residents
- Description: town on the Cowal peninsula in the south of Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
- Categories: small burgh and locality
- Location: Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.9481° or 55° 56′ 53″ northLongitude
-4.9245° or 4° 55′ 28″ westPopulation
7,660Elevation
56 feet (17 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB DNUOpen location code
9C7QW3XG+66OpenStreetMap ID
node 32701190OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Dunoon” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Dunoon”
- Basque: “Dunoon”
- Bengali: “ডুনুন”
- Cebuano: “Dunoon”
- Chinese: “德努恩”
- Chinese: “达农”
- Chinese: “達農”
- Chinese: “都倫”
- Dutch: “Dunoon”
- Esperanto: “Dunoon”
- French: “Dunoon”
- German: “Dunoon”
- Gujarati: “ડુનૂન”
- Hebrew: “דונון”
- Irish: “Dún Omhain”
- Irish: “Dùn Omhain”
- Italian: “Dunoon”
- Japanese: “ダヌーン”
- Japanese: “ダンウーン”
- Kannada: “ಡನೂನ್”
- Korean: “더넌”
- Lithuanian: “Danunas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dunoon”
- Persian: “دانون، اسکاتلند”
- Polish: “Dunoon”
- Portuguese: “Dunoon”
- Russian: “Данун”
- Scots: “Dunuin”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Dùn Omhain”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Dunoon”
- Slovenian: “Dunoon”
- Spanish: “Dunoon”
- Swedish: “Dunoon, Skottland”
- Swedish: “Dunoon”
- Tamil: “டாநூன்”
- Telugu: “డునూన్”
- Turkish: “Dunoon”
- Urdu: “دونون”
- Welsh: “Dunoon”
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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 “Dunoon”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.