Uig
Uig is a village in the north of Skye, with a population of 423 in 2011. "Uig" derives from Old Norse vík, a bay, and it's a port with ferries to the Outer Hebrides.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 298 residents
- Description: village on Trotternish, Skye, Highland, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Uig, Isle of Skye”, “Uig, Skye”, “Uig, Snizort”, and “Ùige”
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dun Skudiburgh and Uig Tower.
Dun Skudiburgh
Fort
Photo: IBM Ralston, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dun Skudiburgh is a prehistoric fort near Uig, Skye, Scotland. The site is on the west coast of Trotternish, on a steep-sided knoll about 60 metres above the shore of Loch Snizort.
Uig Tower
Building
Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Uig Tower, also known as Captain Fraser's Folly, is a nineteenth-century folly in Uig on the island of Skye in the Highlands of Scotland. It is a category B listed building.
Castle Ewen
Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Christian Collins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Castle Ewen is a scenic viewpoint.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Totscore and Balnaknock.
Monkstadt
Hamlet
Photo: Dave Fergusson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Monkstadt is a hamlet, which is situated 2 miles north of Uig.
Uig
- Category: locality
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.591° or 57° 35′ 27″ northLongitude
-6.3722° or 6° 22′ 20″ westPopulation
298Elevation
256 feet (78 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB UIGOpen location code
9C9MHJRH+94OpenStreetMap ID
node 267261435OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Western Frisian—“Uig” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Uig, islla de Skye.”
- Asturian: “Uig”
- Basque: “Uig”
- Bulgarian: “Уиг”
- Cebuano: “Uig”
- Chinese: “威格”
- Czech: “Uig”
- Dutch: “Uig”
- Estonian: “Uig”
- Finnish: “Uig”
- Finnish: “Ùige”
- French: “Uig”
- Galician: “Uig”
- German: “Uig”
- Irish: “An Ùig”
- Irish: “Ùige”
- Italian: “Uig”
- Japanese: “ウイグ”
- Persian: “اویگ، اسکای”
- Persian: “اویگ، سکای”
- Polish: “Uig”
- Scottish Gaelic: “An Ùig”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ùige”
- Spanish: “Uig”
- Swedish: “Uig”
- Welsh: “Ùige”
- Western Frisian: “Uig”
- “Uig”
- “Uig - Ùige”
- “Ùige”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Uig”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.