Rubha an Uisge
Rubha an Uisge is a cape in Western Isles, Scotland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dùn and Stac Levenish.
Dùn
Island
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dùn is an island in St Kilda, Scotland. It is nearly 1 mile long. Its name simply means "fort" in Scottish Gaelic, but the fort itself has been lost – old maps show it on Gob an Dùin, which is at the seaward end.
Stac Levenish
Islet
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stac Levenish or Stac Leibhinis is a sea stack in the St Kilda archipelago in Scotland. Lying 2.5 kilometres off Village Bay on Hirta, it is part of the rim of an extinct volcano that includes Dùn, Ruaival and Mullach Sgar.
Soay
Island
Photo: Olaf1950, Public domain.
Soay is an uninhabited islet in the St Kilda archipelago, Scotland. The name is from Old Norse Sauðey, meaning "island of sheep". The island is part of the St Kilda World Heritage Site and home to a primitive breed of sheep.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include St Kilda and Glen Mor.
St Kilda
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St Kilda is a small archipelago in the Atlantic, 40 miles west of the Outer Hebrides or Western Isles of Scotland, of which it's administratively part. Hirta is the main island, and there is no island called St Kilda.
Rubha an Uisge
- Type: Cape
- Category: landform
- Location: Western Isles, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.8125° or 57° 48′ 45″ northLongitude
-8.5498° or 8° 32′ 59″ westOpen location code
9C9HRF72+23OpenStreetMap ID
node 310466834OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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