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bay a coastal indentation between two capes or headlands, larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf.

• Lyrawa Bay (1km)
• Pegal Bay (1km)
• Rysa Bay (2km)
• Mill Bay (2km)
• Chalmers Hope (2.9km)
• Peat Bay (2.9km)
• Ore Bay (4.1km)
• Bay of Houton (6.1km)
• Bay of Myre (6.3km)
• Kirk Hope (7.3km)
• Curries Firth (7.4km)
• Scat Wick (7.9km)
• Long Hope (8km)
• Pan Hope (8.2km)

cape a land area, more prominent than a point, projecting into the sea and marking a notable change in coastal direction.

• Pegal Head (1km)
• Green Head (2.2km)
• Scad Head (2.9km)
• Head of the Right (4km)
• Bring Head (5.7km)
• Houton Head (6km)
• Midland Ness (6.1km)
• Crock Ness (6.3km)
• Hangaback (7.2km)
• Toy Ness (7.9km)
• South Ness (8km)
• Quoy Ness (8.2km)
• Roan Head (8.5km)

point a tapering piece of land projecting into a body of water, less prominent than a cape.

• Point of Cletts (2km)
• Point of the Ward (2.1km)
• Whiting Point (2.9km)
• North Point (2.9km)
• Point of Tuberry (3.7km)
• Ayre Point (5km)
• Point of Hackness (6.3km)
• The Nevi (7.2km)
• North Ness (8km)

island a tract of land, smaller than a continent, surrounded by water at high water.

• Rysa Little (0km)
• Cava (2.9km)
• Fara (2.9km)
• Holm of Houton (6.1km)
• Hoy (6.5km)
• Flotta (6.5km)
• Calf of Flotta (8.5km)

Accommodation around Rysa Sound

Houton Bay Lodge Houton Bay Orphir, Orkney

Houton Bay Lodge Houton Bay, Orphir

The INN Guest House THE INN St Mary's Holm, ORKNEY

sound a long arm of the sea forming a channel between the mainland and an island or islands; or connecting two larger bodies of water.

• Rysa Sound (0km)
• Gutter Sound (2.1km)
• Calf Sound (8.5km)
• Clestran Sound (8.5km)

rock a conspicuous, isolated rocky mass.

• Barrel of Butter (5.5km)
• Peter Skerry (6.1km)
• Sour Skerry (7.2km)

stream a body of running water moving to a lower level in a channel on land.

• Pegal Burn (1km)
• Burn of Ore (4km)

populated place a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work.

• Lyness (4km)
• Quoyness (7.3km)

reef(s) a surface-navigation hazard composed of consolidated material.

• Heyspan (5.7km)
• Row Taing (8.2km)

channel the deepest part of a stream, bay, lagoon, or strait, through which the main current flows.

• Bring Deeps (4.1km)

shoal(s) a surface-navigation hazard composed of unconsolidated material.

• Riddock Shoal (8.5km)

lakes large inland bodies of standing water.

• Lochs of Geniefea (8.2km)

peninsula an elongate area of land projecting into a body of water and nearly surrounded by water.

• Calf of Cava (2.2km)

bank(s) an elevation, typically located on a shelf, over which the depth of water is relatively shallow but sufficient for most surface navigation.

• The Fleshes (7.9km)

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