Great Bernera
Great Bernera is an island in the Outer Hebrides or Western Isles of Scotland. It lies just off the northwest coast of Lewis and is connected by a bridge.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island off the Isle of Lewis, Scotland
- Also known as: “Bernera”, “Bernera Island”, and “Great Berneray”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Callanish VIII and Ceabhaigh.
Callanish VIII
Archaeological site
Photo: Tumulus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Callanish VIII stone setting is one of many megalithic structures around the better-known Calanais I on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
Ceabhaigh
Island
Ceabhaigh is a small island in an arm of Loch Ròg on the west coast of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. It is about 25 hectares in extent. It is not known if the island was ever permanently inhabited.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Breaclete.
Breaclete
Village
Photo: Iain Macaulay, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Breacleit is the central village on Great Bernera in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Breaclete is within the parish of Uig. Although the village name comes from a geographical feature rather than a steading it is generally believed to be an ancient settlement.
Great Bernera
- Category: landform
- Location: Western Isles, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Great Bernera” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Gran Bernera”
- Basque: “Great Bernera”
- Breton: “Bearnaraigh Mòr”
- Breton: “Beàrnaraigh Mòr”
- Catalan: “Great Bernera”
- Cebuano: “Great Bernera”
- Chinese: “大伯納拉島”
- Chinese: “大伯纳拉岛”
- Cornish: “Bearnaraigh Mòr”
- Czech: “Bernera”
- Czech: “Great Bernera”
- Dutch: “Bearnaraigh Mor”
- Dutch: “Beàrnaraigh Mòr”
- Dutch: “Bernera”
- Dutch: “Great Bernera”
- French: “Great Bernera”
- Galician: “Great Bernera”
- German: “Great Bernera”
- Greek: “Γκρέιτ Μπέρνερα”
- Irish: “Bearnaraigh Mór”
- Irish: “Bearnaraigh Mòr”
- Irish: “Beàrnaraigh Mòr”
- Italian: “Great Bernera”
- Japanese: “グレート・バーネラ島”
- Low German: “Great Bernera”
- Luxembourgish: “Bhearnaraigh”
- Luxembourgish: “Great Bernera”
- Manx: “Bearnaraigh Mòr”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Great Bernera”
- Polish: “Great Bernera”
- Portuguese: “Great Bernera”
- Scots: “Great Bernera”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Beàrnaraigh Leòdhais”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Beàrnaraigh Mòr”
- Slovak: “Great Bernera”
- Spanish: “Bernera”
- Spanish: “Great Bernera”
- Swedish: “Great Bernera”
- Ukrainian: “Бернер”
- Welsh: “Bearnaraigh Mòr”
- Welsh: “Bernera Fawr”
- Welsh: “Great Bernera”
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Great Bernera”. Photo: Nessy-Pic, CC BY-SA 3.0.