Kearvaig Bay
Kearvaig Bay is a bay in Scotland, United Kingdom.Photo: Simon Bonney, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in Highland, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Bàgh Chearbhaig”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cape Wrath Lighthouse and Sgribhis-bheinn.
Cape Wrath Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cape Wrath Lighthouse at Cape Wrath was built in 1828 by Robert Stevenson and was manned until 1998, when it was converted to automatic operation by the Northern Lighthouse Board.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Achiemore.
Achiemore
Hamlet
Photo: RH Dengate, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Achiemore was a crofting community located on the Cape Wrath peninsula near the village of Durness in the Scottish county of Sutherland. The hamlet is just south of the farmstead of Daill on the western shore of the Kyle of Durness.
Kearvaig Bay
- Category: body of water
- Location: Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
58.61° or 58° 36′ 36″ northLongitude
-4.9442° or 4° 56′ 39″ westOpen location code
9CCQJ354+X8OpenStreetMap ID
node 1587428201OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bayWikidata ID
Q111781271
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Breton to Welsh—“Kearvaig Bay” goes by many names.
- Breton: “Bàgh Chearbhaig”
- Cornish: “Bàgh Chearbhaig”
- Irish: “Bàgh Chearbhaig”
- Manx: “Bàgh Chearbhaig”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bàgh Chearbhaig”
- Welsh: “Bàgh Chearbhaig”
- “Bàgh Chearbhaig”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Cearbhaig and Geodha na Seamraig.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Cape Wrath Firing Range and Dunan Mor.
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