Traveling Luck for Houton Head Orkney Islands, United Kingdom

Alternatively known as Hounton Head, Howton Head

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Weather near Houton Head Last report from Kirkwall Airport, 18.8km away

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

• Bay of Houton (1km)
• Bay of Myre (2.1km)
• Chalmers Hope (4.5km)
• The Hap (5.5km)
• Lyrawa Bay (6.1km)
• Pegal Bay (6.1km)
• Bay of Ireland (6.7km)
• Bay of Creekland (7.2km)
• Bay of Quoys (7.2km)
• Hamla Voe (7.9km)
• Mill Bay (8km)
• Rysa Bay (8km)

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

• Houton Head (0km)
• Midland Ness (1km)
• Green Head (4.1km)
• Hangaback (4.1km)
• Scad Head (4.5km)
• Bring Head (4.6km)
• Toy Ness (5.1km)
• Pegal Head (6.1km)
• Mo Ness (7.2km)
• The Ness (7.3km)
• Ve Ness (7.5km)

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

• The Nevi (4.1km)
• Taing of Sandside (4.6km)
• Point of Tuberry (5km)
• Nazegeo Point (6.3km)
• Point of the Ward (6.3km)
• Bu' Point (7.2km)
• Point of Oxan (7.5km)
• Point of Cletts (8km)

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

• Holm of Houton (1km)
• Cava (4.5km)
• Graemsay (5.5km)
• Rysa Little (6km)
• Outer Holm (6.5km)
• Inner Holm (7.9km)

Accommodation around Houton Head

Houton Bay Lodge Houton Bay Orphir, Orkney

Houton Bay Lodge Houton Bay, Orphir

Merkister Hotel Loch Harray Harray, ORKNEY

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.

• Clestran Sound (3.7km)
• Rysa Sound (6km)
• Scapa Flow (6.2km)
• Gutter Sound (6.3km)
• Burra Sound (7.5km)

rock a conspicuous, isolated rocky mass.

• Peter Skerry (1km)
• Sour Skerry (4.1km)
• Skerry of Cletts (6.5km)
• Barr Rock (6.5km)
• Barrel of Butter (6.5km)

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

• Orphir (4.6km)
• Quoyness (6.5km)
• Stromness (7.3km)
• Navershaw (7.9km)

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

• Riddock Shoal (3.7km)
• Sand Eel (4.6km)

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

• The Fleshes (5.1km)
• Mallow Bank (5.7km)

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

• Bring Deeps (2.2km)

hill a rounded elevation of limited extent rising above the surrounding land with local relief of less than 300m.

• Ward Hill (5km)

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

• Pegal Burn (6.1km)

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

• The Lash (7.5km)

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

• Calf of Cava (4.1km)

rocks conspicuous, isolated rocky masses.

• Skerries of Clestran (4.5km)

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