Traveling Luck for Birsay Bay Orkney Islands, United Kingdom

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Weather near Birsay Bay Last report from Kirkwall Airport, 33.6km away

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

• Point of Buckquoy (1km)
• Whitaloo Point (2km)
• Outshore Point (6km)
• Skea (6.4km)
• Verron (7.9km)
• Point of Howana Geo (8km)
• Fisk Hellia (10.2km)
• Cauldrus (12km)
• Point of Hisber (12.2km)
• Quoynalonga Ness (13.8km)
• Neban Point (16km)
• Point of Skeo (16.3km)
• Sacquoy Head (17.2km)
• Point of Vastray (17.5km)
• Scara Taing (17.8km)
• Neblonga (18km)

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

• Birsay Bay (0km)
• Skipi Geo (1km)
• Loop of Crooie (3.6km)
• Mar Wick (4.1km)
• Bay of Skaill (9.9km)
• Garthna Geo (13.9km)
• Kellyan Hellyan (13.9km)
• Bight of Mousland (16km)
• Lyre Geo (16km)
• Wood Wick (17.8km)

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

• Brough Head (0km)
• Marwick Head (4.1km)
• Costa Head (8.4km)
• Row Head (10km)
• Scabra Head (13.8km)
• Inga Ness (14.1km)
• Aiker Ness (15.4km)
• Bring Head (15.5km)
• Saviskaill Head (19.1km)

lake a large inland body of standing water.

• Loch of Boardhouse (3.7km)
• Loch of Hundland (6.4km)
• Loch of Swannay (7.1km)
• Loch of Harray (15.6km)
• Loch of Stenness (16.7km)

Accommodation around Birsay Bay

Merkister Hotel Loch Harray Harray, ORKNEY

Houton Bay Lodge Houton Bay, Orphir

Albert Hotel Mounthoolie Lane, Kirkwall

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

• Birsay (1km)
• Georth (15.8km)
• Redland (16.8km)
• Finstown (18.5km)

rock a conspicuous, isolated rocky mass.

• Latha Skerry (2.2km)
• Standard (7.4km)
• Quoy (15.3km)
• Skrowa Skerry (18km)

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

• Eynhallow (13.4km)
• Mainland (16.7km)
• Rousay (18.8km)

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

• Sands of Evie (14.4km)
• North Shoal (18.2km)
• North Shoal (19.1km)

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

• Weal Race (13.4km)
• Rullard Röst (18.1km)

ancient site a place where archeological remains, old structures, or cultural artifacts are located.

• Ring of Brogar (17km)

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

• Burgar Röst (12.2km)

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

• Skara Brae (10km)

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.

• Eynhallow Sound (14.3km)

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

• Black Craig (18km)

Airports close to Birsay Bay