Black Island
Black Island is an island in Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland. Black Island is situated nearby to the locality Ballydrain, as well as near the suburb West Winds.Places of Interest
Highlights include Castle Espie and Newtownards Airport.
Castle Espie
Nature reserve
Photo: SeamusSweeney, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Castle Espie is a wetland reserve managed by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust on the banks of Strangford Lough, three miles south of Comber, County Down, Northern Ireland, in the townland of the same name.
Newtownards Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Dennis Reynolds, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Newtownards Aerodrome is a local airfield in Newtownards, County Down, Northern Ireland, 8.5 NM east of Belfast. It offers light aircraft flights, helicopter flights, microlight flights and flight simulator training.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Newtownards and Comber.
Newtownards
Photo: Guliolopez, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Newtownards is a town at the head of Strangford Lough, historically in County Down, with a population in 2021 of 29,600. The counties of Northern Ireland are no longer units of governance so since 2015 the town has been part of Ards and North Down "super-district".
Comber
Town
Photo: Ardfern, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Comber is a town in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies 5 miles south of Newtownards, at the northern end of Strangford Lough. It is situated in the townland of Town Parks, the civil parish of Comber and the historic barony of Castlereagh Lower.
Black Island
- Type: Island
- Categories: locality and landform
- Location: Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.5425° or 54° 32′ 33″ northLongitude
-5.6742° or 5° 40′ 27″ westOpen location code
9C6PG8RG+X8OpenStreetMap ID
way 1056648443OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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