Wick
Wick is a town in Caithness in the far northeast of Scotland, with a population of 6870 in 2020. The name comes from Norse vik, meaning a bay. The town first grew up north of the river: in the 19th century the fishing port of Pulteney was established to the…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 6,820 residents
- Description: town and royal burgh in Caithness, Highland, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Wick, Caithness” and “Wick, Highland”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wick John O‘ Groats Airport and Wick railway station.
Wick John O‘ Groats Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wick John O' Groats Airport is located one nautical mile north of the town of Wick, at the north-eastern extremity of the mainland of Scotland. It is owned and maintained by Highlands and Islands Airports Limited.
Wick railway station
Railway station
Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wick railway station is a railway station located in Wick, in the Highland council area in the far north of Scotland. It serves the town of Wick and other surrounding areas in the historic county of Caithness, including Staxigoe, Papigoe and Haster.
Wick Town and County Hospital
Hospital
Wick Town and County Hospital is a health facility in Seaforth Avenue, Wick, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Highland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Papigoe and Ackergill.
Papigoe
Village
Papigoe is a village on the east coast of Caithness, at the head of Broad Haven Bay in the Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.
Ackergill
Hamlet
Ackergill is a settlement in the Wick, Caithness, in the Highland Council area of Scotland.
Staxigoe
Village
Staxigoe is a former fishing village, located 2 miles east of Wick on the north-eastern coast of the former county of Caithness, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.
Wick
- Categories: royal burgh, small burgh, and locality
- Location: Caithness, Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.4426° or 58° 26′ 33″ northLongitude
-3.0916° or 3° 5′ 30″ westPopulation
6,820Elevation
56 feet (17 metres)IATA airport code
WICUnited Nations Location Code
GB WICOpen location code
9CCRCWV5+29OpenStreetMap ID
node 10320273OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2633982Wikidata ID
Q1012502
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Wick” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ويك”
- Asturian: “Wick”
- Basque: “Wick”
- Belarusian: “Уік”
- Bengali: “উইক”
- Bulgarian: “Уик”
- Catalan: “Wick”
- Cebuano: “Wick”
- Chinese: “威克”
- Chinese: “維克”
- Czech: “Wick”
- Dutch: “Wick”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ويك)”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ويك”
- French: “Wick”
- German: “Wick”
- Gujarati: “વિક”
- Hebrew: “ויק”
- Irish: “Inbhir Úige”
- Irish: “Inbhir Ùige”
- Italian: “Wick”
- Japanese: “ウィック (ハイランド)”
- Japanese: “ウィック”
- Kannada: “ವಿಕ್”
- Korean: “윅”
- Latvian: “Vika”
- Lithuanian: “Vikas”
- Manx: “Yn Ooig”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wick”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wick i Skottland”
- Norwegian: “Wick”
- Ossetian: “Вик”
- Ossetian: “Уик”
- Persian: “ویک، کیثنس”
- Polish: “Wick”
- Portuguese: “Wick”
- Russian: “Уик”
- Scots: “Week”
- Scots: “Weik”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Inbhir Uige”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Inbhir Ùige”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Wick”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wick, Škotska”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wick”
- Slovenian: “Wick”
- Spanish: “Wick”
- Swedish: “Wick, Skottland”
- Swedish: “Wick”
- Tamil: “விக்”
- Telugu: “విక్”
- Urdu: “وک”
- Welsh: “Wick, Cothnais”
- Welsh: “Wick”
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