Mallaig
Mallaig is a ferry port and fishing village on the west coast of The Great Glen and Strathspey region of the Scottish Highlands, with a population of 660 in 2020. The name is Norse, Mel vik, sand-dune bay.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: DrTorstenHenning, Public domain.
Photo: Dbx54, Public domain.
- Type: Village with 670 residents
- Description: town in Highland, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Malaig” and “Mallaig Beg”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mallaig railway station and Roman Catholic Church Of St Patrick, Mallaig.
Mallaig railway station
Railway station
Photo: David Medcalf, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mallaig railway station is a railway station serving the ferry port of Mallaig, Lochaber, in the Highland region of Scotland. This station is a terminus on the West Highland Line, 41 miles by rail from Fort William and 164 miles from Glasgow Queen Street.
Mallaig High School
School
Photo: Lynn M Reid, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mallaig High School is a secondary school in Mallaig, Lochaber, Scotland. The school building opened in 1989. The current Acting Head Teacher is Pamela Watt who was appointed in 2023.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Morar.
Morar
Village
Photo: David A Philp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Morar is a small village on the west coast of The Rough Bounds of Scotland, three miles south of Mallaig. The name Morar is also applied to the northern part of the peninsula containing the village, though North Morar is more usual. Morar is situated 2½ miles south of Mallaig.
Mallaig
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Inverness-shire, Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.0061° or 57° 0′ 22″ northLongitude
-5.8294° or 5° 49′ 46″ westPopulation
670Elevation
36 feet (11 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB MLGOpen location code
9C9P254C+F6OpenStreetMap ID
node 24639556OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Mallaig” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Mallaig”
- Basque: “Mallaig”
- Bulgarian: “Малаиг”
- Catalan: “Mallaig”
- Cebuano: “Mallaig”
- Chinese: “马莱格”
- Czech: “Mallaig”
- Dutch: “Mallaig”
- Finnish: “Malaig”
- Finnish: “Mallaig”
- French: “Malaig”
- French: “Mallaig”
- German: “Mallaig”
- Hebrew: “מלאיג”
- Icelandic: “Mallaig”
- Irish: “Malaig”
- Italian: “Mallaig”
- Japanese: “マリーグ駅”
- Japanese: “マレイグ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mallaig”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mallaig”
- Norwegian: “Mallaig”
- Persian: “مالیگ”
- Polish: “Mallaig”
- Romanian: “Mallaig”
- Russian: “Мэллиг”
- Scots: “Mallaig”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Malaig”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Mallaig”
- South Azerbaijani: “مالیق”
- Spanish: “mallaig”
- Spanish: “Mallaig”
- Swedish: “Mallaig”
- Welsh: “Malaig”
- Welsh: “Mallaig”
- “Malaig”
- “Mallaig”
- “Mallaig - Malaig”
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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 “Mallaig”. Photo: Dbx54, Public domain.