Traveling Luck for Rapness Sound Orkney Islands, United Kingdom

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Weather near Rapness Sound Last report from Kirkwall Airport, 33km away

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

• Bay of Tafts (2.8km)
• Bay of Cusvie (4.1km)
• Rack Wick (4.5km)
• Bay of Tuquoy (5.7km)
• Bay of Carrick (6.4km)
• Bay of London (6.5km)
• Fersness Bay (6.7km)
• Mill Bay (7.3km)
• Sealskerry Bay (8.2km)
• Skel Wick (8.5km)
• Bay of Swartmill (8.9km)
• Cati Geo (9.4km)

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

• Stanger Head (4km)
• Fers Ness (4.5km)
• Greenan Nev (4.5km)
• Little Noup Head (5.5km)
• Red Head (6.4km)
• Ness of Tuquoy (7.3km)
• Grey Head (7.4km)
• Scock Ness (8.5km)
• Berst Ness (9.1km)
• Faraclett Head (9.3km)
• Strang Quoy (9.4km)

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.

• Rapness Sound (0km)
• Lavey Sound (1km)
• Weatherness Sound (2.2km)
• Sound of Faray (3.6km)
• Calf Sound (7.4km)
• Sound of Longataing (7.8km)
• Eday Sound (9.3km)
• The North Sound (9.4km)

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

• Holm of Fara (1km)
• Faray (2.8km)
• Wart Holm (3.1km)
• Red Holm (3.6km)
• Rusk Holm (4km)
• Calf of Eday (7.1km)
• Eday (7.2km)
• Kili Holm (7.2km)

Accommodation around Rapness Sound

Albert Hotel Mounthoolie Lane, Kirkwall

Houton Bay Lodge Houton Bay, Orphir

rock a conspicuous, isolated rocky mass.

• Harp Skerry (4.1km)
• Skerry of Wastbist (5km)
• Little Skerry (6.3km)
• Skelwick Skerry (8.2km)
• Seal Skerry (8.2km)
• Bakie Skerry (9.1km)
• The Bow (9.4km)
• Lashy Skerry (9.4km)

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

• Point of Huro (2km)
• Point of Neven (2km)
• Weather Ness (2.2km)
• Twinness (2.8km)
• Point of Scaraber (4.5km)
• Spo Ness (8.5km)
• Point of Crook (8.5km)

rocks conspicuous, isolated rocky masses.

• The Clumps (3.1km)
• Skea Skerries (7.4km)

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

• Westray Firth (5.7km)

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

• Broad Shoal (2km)

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

• Sneuk (8.9km)

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

• Rull Röst (6.5km)

spit a narrow, straight or curved continuation of a beach into a waterbody.

• Mae Sand (8.1km)

Airports close to Rapness Sound