Point of Greenbanks
Point of Greenbanks is a locality in Orkney Islands, Scotland. Point of Greenbanks is situated nearby to the locality Yinstay, as well as near Kald-Setr.Places of Interest
Highlights include Kirkwall Airport and Loch of Tankerness.
Kirkwall Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Ken Walton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kirkwall Airport is the main airport serving Orkney in Scotland. It is located 2.5 NM southeast of Kirkwall and is owned by Highlands and Islands Airports Limited. The airport is used by Loganair. Kirkwall Airport is situated 2 miles southwest of Point of Greenbanks.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Head of Holland and St Andrews.
St Andrews
Locality
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St Andrews is a parish on Mainland, Orkney in Scotland. It is located east of the town of Kirkwall and the parish of St Ola and lies north of Holm and west of Deerness. St Andrews is situated 2 miles south of Point of Greenbanks.
Tankerness
Village
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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 2 miles south of Point of Greenbanks.
Point of Greenbanks
- Type: Locality
- Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.97802° or 58° 58′ 41″ northLongitude
-2.86666° or 2° 52′ westOpen location code
9CCVX4HM+68OpenStreetMap ID
node 918035072OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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