Traveling Luck for Rousay Sound Orkney Islands, United Kingdom

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Weather near Rousay Sound Last report from Kirkwall Airport, 23km away

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

• Point of the Wart (2km)
• Point of Avelshay (2.2km)
• Point of Crook (3.6km)
• Taing of Trumland (3.6km)
• Point of Hellia (4km)
• Stromness Taing (4.1km)
• Point of Vastray (7.3km)
• Point of Skeo (7.4km)
• Odin Ness (8.2km)
• The Galt (8.5km)
• Scara Taing (8.5km)
• Banks (9.4km)
• Ness of Boray (10km)
• Sacquoy Head (10.1km)

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

• Egilsay (1km)
• Holm of Scockness (2km)
• Wyre (4.1km)
• Kili Holm (4.5km)
• Rousay (5.5km)
• Muckle Green Holm (7.4km)
• Sweyn Holm (7.9km)
• Gairsay (8km)
• Little Green Holm (8.2km)
• Muckle Green Holm (8.4km)
• Rusk Holm (8.5km)
• Holm of Boray (9.9km)
• Grass Holm (10km)

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.

• Rousay Sound (0km)
• Howe Sound (2.2km)
• Sound of Longataing (4.1km)
• Wyre Sound (5km)
• Gairsay Sound (6.3km)
• Eynhallow Sound (9.4km)

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

• Saviskaill Bay (5.7km)
• Millburn Bay (7.9km)
• Sealskerry Bay (8.4km)
• Wood Wick (8.5km)
• Wass Wick (8.9km)
• Fersness Bay (10km)

Accommodation around Rousay Sound

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

• Scock Ness (4km)
• Faraclett Head (4.1km)
• Saviskaill Head (8.5km)
• Aiker Ness (9.1km)
• Bring Head (10km)

rock a conspicuous, isolated rocky mass.

• Benlin Rock (6.5km)
• Seal Skerry (8.4km)
• Quoy (8.4km)
• Harp Skerry (9.3km)

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

• The Taing (5km)
• Hen of Gairsay (7.9km)
• North Head (8km)

current a horizontal flow of water in a given direction with uniform velocity.

• Rull Röst (6km)
• Rullard Röst (9.3km)

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

• Fall of Warness (8.2km)

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

• Redland (9.3km)

estuary a funnel-shaped stream mouth or embayment where fresh water mixes with sea water under tidal influences.

• Westray Firth (6.3km)

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

• Point of the Graand (2.8km)

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

• Broad Shoal (10km)

rocks conspicuous, isolated rocky masses.

• Skertours (10km)

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

• Sands of Evie (10km)

lake a large inland body of standing water.

• Galt Skerry (8.5km)

Airports close to Rousay Sound