Traveling Luck for The Needle Orkney Islands, United Kingdom

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Weather near The Needle Last report from Kirkwall Airport, 31.7km away

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

• Little Rack Wick (2.2km)
• Lang Geo (2.2km)
• Ha Wick (2.2km)
• Aith Hope (6.5km)
• North Bay (6.5km)
• Geo of the Lame (6.7km)
• Lyrie Geo (6.7km)
• Long Hope (7.2km)
• Rack Wick (9km)
• Ore Bay (9.2km)
• Rysa Bay (9.4km)
• Mill Bay (9.4km)
• Lyrawa Bay (10.1km)
• Pegal Bay (10.1km)
• Peat Bay (11km)
• Chalmers Hope (11.2km)
• Kirk Hope (11.5km)

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

• Tor Ness (2.9km)
• Sneuk Head (5km)
• South Ness (6.2km)
• Santoo Head (6.7km)
• Aith Head (7.5km)
• Head of the Right (8.2km)
• Garth Head (8.5km)
• Too of the Head (9.5km)
• Crock Ness (9.5km)
• Pegal Head (10.1km)
• Scad Head (11.2km)
• Cantick Head (11.5km)
• Green Head (11.7km)

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

• Brims Ness (5.5km)
• North Ness (7.2km)
• Point of Craig-gate (9km)
• Point of Cletts (9.4km)
• Point of Hackness (9.5km)
• Rora Head (10.1km)
• Whiting Point (11km)
• North Point (11km)
• Ayre Point (11.1km)
• Point of the Ward (12.2km)

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

• Melsetter (3.7km)
• Hurliness (4.6km)
• Lyness (8.2km)
• Rackwick (9km)
• Quoyness (12km)

Accommodation around The Needle

Houton Bay Lodge Houton Bay Orphir, Orkney

Houton Bay Lodge Houton Bay, Orphir

Dunnet Head Bed and Breakfast & Self Catering Windhaven, Thurso

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

• Hoy (6.1km)
• Rysa Little (10.7km)
• Fara (11km)

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

• Burn of Ore (8.2km)
• South Burn (9km)
• Pegal Burn (10.1km)

rock a conspicuous, isolated rocky mass.

• The Needle (0km)
• Sheep Skerry (2.9km)
• Old Man of Hoy (11.7km)

mountain an elevation standing high above the surrounding area with small summit area, steep slopes and local relief of 300m or more.

• Ward Hill (12km)

causeway a raised roadway across wet ground or shallow water.

• The Ayre (5.5km)

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 (10.7km)

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

• Heyspan (12km)

lakes large inland bodies of standing water.

• Lochs of Geniefea (4km)

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

• South Walls (9.5km)

cliff(s) a high, steep to perpendicular slope overlooking a waterbody or lower area.

• The Berry (0km)

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