Sand of Heatherhouse
Sand of Heatherhouse is a locality in Orkney Islands, Scotland. Sand of Heatherhouse is situated nearby to the locality Boondatoon, as well as near Taing of Rumbles.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Loch of Tankerness.
Loch of Tankerness
Photo: Adam Ward, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Loch of Tankerness is a large, lowland, freshwater loch on the Orkney mainland in Scotland. The loch is roughly triangular in shape and is shallow with a flat bottom that gradually deepens from west to east. It lies approximately 4 mi southeast of Kirkwall. Loch of Tankerness is situated 1½ miles southwest of Sand of Heatherhouse.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rerwick Head and Tankerness.
Tankerness
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tankerness is a district in the St Andrews parish in Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. Essentially a peninsula, it is about 13 kilometres south-east of Kirkwall and 1 kilometre east of Kirkwall Airport. Tankerness is situated 2½ miles southwest of Sand of Heatherhouse.
Head of Holland
Locality
Photo: Adam Ward, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Head of Holland is a locality, which is situated 3 miles west of Sand of Heatherhouse.
Sand of Heatherhouse
- Type: Locality
- Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.98475° or 58° 59′ 5″ northLongitude
-2.81218° or 2° 48′ 44″ westOpen location code
9CCVX5MQ+V4OpenStreetMap ID
node 918035025OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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Localities in the Area
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