Traveling Luck for Pentland Firth Orkney Islands, United Kingdom

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Weather near Pentland Firth Last report from Kirkwall Airport, 29.8km away

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

• North Head (4.6km)
• Cantick Head (6.1km)
• Red Head (6.1km)
• Garth Head (7.3km)
• Aith Head (7.9km)
• Mell Head (8km)
• The Wing (8.3km)
• Barth Head (8.5km)
• Herston Head (10.1km)
• Harrabrough Head (10.1km)
• South Ness (10.1km)
• Stanger Head (10.2km)
• The Nev (10.2km)
• Brough Ness (10.3km)
• Crock Ness (10.4km)

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

• The Brook (4.6km)
• The Haven (4.6km)
• Tree Geo (6.1km)
• Aith Hope (8.6km)
• North Bay (8.6km)
• Bur Wick (9.2km)
• Barth Wick (9.2km)
• Long Hope (9.5km)
• Scat Wick (9.9km)
• Kirk Hope (10km)
• Kirk Bay (10km)
• Gills Bay (10.2km)
• Sand Wick (10.2km)

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

• Tarf Tail (3.1km)
• Swilkie Point (4km)
• The Ool (8km)
• North Taing (8km)
• Scarton Point (8km)
• Saint Johns Point (9km)
• Brims Ness (9.4km)
• North Ness (9.5km)
• Ness of Quoys (10km)
• Ness of Huna (10km)
• Point of Hackness (10.4km)

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.

• Outer Sound (2.2km)
• Cantick Sound (8km)
• Switha Sound (10km)
• Inner Sound (10km)

Accommodation around Pentland Firth

Seaview Hotel County Road, John o' Groats

Murray Arms Hotel Back Road, South Ronaldsay

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

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

• Swona (4.6km)
• Stroma (6.1km)
• Switha (8km)
• South Ronaldsay (10.1km)

rock a conspicuous, isolated rocky mass.

• Selki Skerry (3.1km)
• West Bow (3.7km)
• South Clett (4.1km)
• Lother Rock (9.3km)

rocks conspicuous, isolated rocky masses.

• Stroma Skerries (8km)
• Men of Mey (9km)
• Longgoe Skerries (10.1km)

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

• Burwick (8.3km)
• Huna (10km)
• Hurliness (10.2km)

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

• Pentland Firth (0km)

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

• South Walls (6.7km)

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

• The Swilkie (4km)

causeway a raised roadway across wet ground or shallow water.

• The Ayre (9.4km)

Airports close to Pentland Firth