Dispersed beam searchlight emplacement (ruins)

Dispersed beam searchlight emplacement (ruins) is a military installation in Orkney Islands, Scotland. Dispersed beam searchlight emplacement (ruins) is situated nearby to the archaeological site Site of St Colm’s Chapel + burial ground (Medieval), as well as near the ruins Graemsay Battery.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Hoy Sound Low Light and Graemsay.

Hoy Sound Low Light

Lighthouse

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Graemsay is an island in the western approaches to Scapa Flow, in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. The island has two lighthouses. Graemsay lies within the parish of Stromness. Hoy Sound Low Light is situated 400 feet northeast of Dispersed beam searchlight emplacement (ruins).

Graemsay

Island

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Graemsay is an island in the western approaches to Scapa Flow, in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. The island has two lighthouses. Graemsay lies within the parish of Stromness.

Stromness Museum

Museum

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Stromness Museum is a small independent museum in the town of Stromness in Orkney, Scotland focusing on the town's connections to maritime and natural history. Stromness Museum is situated 1¼ miles north of Dispersed beam searchlight emplacement (ruins).

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Stromness and Bu‘ Point.

Stromness

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Stromness is a port on the Mainland of the Orkney Islands, with a population of roughly 2200. To the Vikings, Straumsnes meant the headland just south, where a fierce tide rips between Scapa Flow and the Atlantic; get past that and you came safely into Hamnavoe or "peaceful harbour" where the town now stands.

Bu‘ Point

Locality

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Bu‘ Point is a locality, which is situated 2½ miles northeast of Dispersed beam searchlight emplacement (ruins).

Cairston

Locality

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Cairston is a village on Mainland, in Orkney, Scotland. The settlement is within the parish of Stromness. Within the village is located the Castle of Cairston which is said to have belonged to the House of Gordons, and may have been built in 1152, as contested in a Saga. Cairston is situated 3 miles north of Dispersed beam searchlight emplacement (ruins).

Dispersed beam searchlight emplacement (ruins)

Type: Military installation
Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

58.9396° or 58° 56′ 23″ north

Longitude

-3.31152° or 3° 18′ 42″ west

Open location code

9CCRWMQQ+R9

OpenStreetMap ID

way 205075676

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=military

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