Traveling Luck for Outer Sound Orkney Islands, United Kingdom

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Weather near Outer Sound Last report from Wick, 30.8km away

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

• Red Head (4.5km)
• North Head (5km)
• Mell Head (6.3km)
• The Wing (7.5km)
• Cantick Head (8.2km)
• Barth Head (8.3km)
• Duncansby Head (9km)
• Garth Head (9.5km)
• Brough Ness (9.5km)
• Aith Head (10.1km)
• The Nev (10.8km)
• Herston Head (11.2km)

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

• Tree Geo (4km)
• The Haven (5km)
• The Brook (5km)
• Gills Bay (8.5km)
• Bay of Sannick (9km)
• Bur Wick (9.4km)
• Barth Wick (9.4km)
• Scotland Haven (9.5km)
• North Bay (10.8km)
• Aith Hope (10.8km)
• Sand Wick (10.8km)
• Mey Bay (10.8km)

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

• Swilkie Point (2.2km)
• Tarf Tail (2.9km)
• Scarton Point (6km)
• Saint Johns Point (7.9km)
• Ness of Huna (8km)
• Ness of Quoys (8.2km)
• Ness of Duncansby (8.5km)
• Head of Crees (9km)
• The Ool (9.9km)
• North Taing (9.9km)

rock a conspicuous, isolated rocky mass.

• Selki Skerry (2.9km)
• South Clett (3.7km)
• West Bow (4.5km)
• Lother Rock (8.5km)
• Lug of Duncansby (9km)
• Hell Rock (9km)

Accommodation around Outer Sound

Seaview Hotel County Road, John o' Groats

Murray Arms Hotel Back Road, South Ronaldsay

Greenland Guest House Greenland House Main Street castletown, Thurso

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

• Burwick (7.5km)
• Huna (8km)
• Canisbay (10km)
• East Canisbay (10km)
• West Canisbay (10.2km)

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

• Stroma (4.5km)
• Swona (5km)
• Switha (9.9km)
• South Ronaldsay (10.2km)

rocks conspicuous, isolated rocky masses.

• Stroma Skerries (6.3km)
• Men of Mey (7.9km)
• Longgoe Skerries (9.4km)
• Stacks of Duncansby (10.8km)

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 (0km)
• Inner Sound (8.2km)
• Cantick Sound (10km)

whirlpool a turbulent, rotating movement of water in a stream.

• Liddel Eddy (10.5km)

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

• The Swilkie (2.2km)

ruin(s) a destroyed or decayed structure which is no longer functional.

• John O'Groats House (8.2km)

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

• Pentland Firth (2.2km)

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

• South Walls (9km)

Airports close to Outer Sound