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Weather near The Bow Last report from Kirkwall Airport, 37km away

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

• Grey Head (2km)
• Scuthi Head (3.1km)
• Red Head (3.1km)
• Grunavi Head (3.6km)
• Strang Quoy (4km)
• Little Noup Head (4.1km)
• Ness of Brough (6.4km)
• Bea Ness (6.4km)
• Greenan Nev (6.5km)
• Spur Ness (8km)
• Tor Ness (8.4km)
• Fers Ness (9.3km)
• Stanger Head (9.4km)

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

• Bay of Carrick (3.1km)
• Braes Wick (4.1km)
• Bay of Cusvie (5.5km)
• Backaskaill Bay (5.5km)
• Bay of Stove (6km)
• Bay of Brough (6.4km)
• North Bay (6.4km)
• Mill Bay (6.7km)
• Bay of London (7.2km)
• Kettletoft Bay (7.4km)
• Little Sea (8.1km)
• Lamaness Firth (8.4km)
• Roos Wick (8.5km)

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.

• Calf Sound (2km)
• Lashy Sound (2.2km)
• The North Sound (7.2km)
• Sound of Faray (7.3km)
• Weatherness Sound (8.1km)
• Holm Sound (8.2km)
• Eday Sound (8.2km)
• Lavey Sound (8.4km)

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

• Calf of Eday (2.8km)
• Red Holm (6.1km)
• Sanday Island (7.1km)
• Holm of Elsness (8.2km)
• Faray (8.2km)
• Holm of Fara (8.4km)

Accommodation around The Bow

Albert Hotel Mounthoolie Lane, Kirkwall

Houton Bay Lodge Houton Bay, Orphir

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

• Hacks Ness (6.3km)
• Rethie Taing (6.4km)
• Whale Point (7.8km)
• Weather Ness (8.1km)
• Point of Scaraber (9.3km)
• Colli Ness (9.4km)

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

• Lamba Ness (2.2km)
• Quoy Ness (5km)
• Els Ness (8.4km)
• Burness Peninsula (9km)

rock a conspicuous, isolated rocky mass.

• Lashy Skerry (0km)
• The Bow (0km)
• Bow of Hermaness (5.5km)

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

• Dennis Skerry (6.3km)
• Fosky Reef (9.1km)

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

• The Kell (8km)

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

• Kettletoft (6.4km)

islands tracts of land, smaller than a continent, surrounded by water at high water.

• Holms of Ire (7.8km)

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

• Kierlie Shoal (7.3km)

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

• Cuthe Bank (2.2km)

lake a large inland body of standing water.

• Bea Loch (6.1km)

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