Big Dornie
Big Dornie is a hamlet in Highland Council, Scotland. Big Dornie is situated nearby to the village Polbain, as well as near the locality Old Dornie.Places of Interest
Highlights include Isle Ristol and Tanera Beg.
Isle Ristol
Island
Photo: W. L. Tarbert, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Isle Ristol, the innermost of the Summer Isles in Scotland, is a Scottish Wildlife Trust Reserve. Lying roughly 12 miles north of Ullapool in Wester Ross, it is a tidal island, in Loch an Alltain Duibh, that is separated by a narrow channel from Old Dorney Bay.
Tanera Beg
Island
Tanera Beag or Tanera Beg is an uninhabited island in the Summer Isles off north west Scotland. It is called "Tanera Beag" to distinguish it from Tanera Mòr, "Big Tanera". Tanera Beg is situated 2½ miles southwest of Big Dornie.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Polbain and Altandhu.
Polbain
Village
Photo: Ann Hodgson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Polbain is a remote crofting township, located on the north Badentarbat Bay on the west coast of Scotland, in western Ross-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.
Altandhu
Village
Altandhu is a small hamlet, overlooking the sea loch, Loch an Alltain Duibh to the west, on the western shore of the Rubha Mor Peninsula, in the Achiltibuie area, in Ullapool, Ross-shire, Scotland, within the Scottish council area of Highland.
Coigach
Locality
Photo: paddy heron, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Coigach is a peninsula north of Ullapool, in Wester Ross in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. The area consists of a traditional crofting and fishing community of a couple of hundred houses located between mountain and shore on a peninsula looking over the Summer Isles and the sea. Coigach is situated 1½ miles northeast of Big Dornie.
Big Dornie
- Type: Hamlet
- Category: locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.03699° or 58° 2′ 13″ northLongitude
-5.40769° or 5° 24′ 28″ westOpen location code
9CCP2HPR+QWOpenStreetMap ID
node 2133122782OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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