Loch na Caiginn
Loch na Caiginn is a lake in Western Isles, Scotland. Loch na Caiginn is situated nearby to the hamlet Lochportain, as well as near the locality Gleann Seilisdeir.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Flodday and Tahay.
Flodday
Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Flodday is an uninhabited island in Loch Maddy, North Uist in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The area of the island is recorded as 50 hectares in Rick Livingstone's tables, although it is not listed by Hamish Haswell-Smith in his tabulation of Scottish islands greater in size than 40 hectares.
Tahay
Island
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tahay is an island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The name originates from the Old Norse tagg-øy meaning island with a prominent hill. At 53 hectares in area and with a central peak of 65 metres, it is the largest of the group of uninhabited islands off the north east coast of North Uist.
Ceallasaigh Beag
Island
Photo: W. L. Tarbert, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ceallasaigh Beag is a low-lying island in Loch Maddy off North Uist in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. This an area of shallow lagoons filled and drained by the tides each day. Ceallasaigh Mòr lies to the south and these two islets are connected by a narrow strip of sand during some low tides.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lochmaddy and Weavers Point.
Lochmaddy
Village
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
North Uist is an island in the Western Isles or Outer Hebrides of Scotland. It measures 20 miles north-south, 25 miles east-west, and is separated from Benbecula to the south by a tidal ford, nowadays bridged by a causeway.
Weavers Point
Locality
Photo: James Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Weavers Point is a headland to the north of the entrance to Loch Maddy, on the north eastern coastline of North Uist in the Western Isles of Scotland. There has been a lighthouse on the headland since 1980.
Loch na Caiginn
- Type: Lake
- Category: body of water
- Location: Western Isles, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.6339° or 57° 38′ 2″ northLongitude
-7.1101° or 7° 6′ 36″ westOpen location code
9C9JJVMQ+GXOpenStreetMap ID
way 360938165OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=lake
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