Traveling Luck for Birsay Orkney Islands, United Kingdom

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Weather near Birsay Last report from Kirkwall Airport, 32.8km away

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

• Point of Buckquoy (0km)
• Whitaloo Point (1km)
• Skea (5.5km)
• Outshore Point (6.3km)
• Verron (8km)
• Point of Howana Geo (8.2km)
• Fisk Hellia (9.2km)
• Point of Hisber (11.2km)
• Cauldrus (12.1km)
• Quoynalonga Ness (12.9km)
• Point of Skeo (15.3km)
• Neban Point (16.2km)
• Sacquoy Head (16.3km)
• Point of Vastray (16.5km)
• Scara Taing (16.8km)
• Neblonga (18.1km)
• Banks (18.4km)

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

• Skipi Geo (0km)
• Birsay Bay (1km)
• Loop of Crooie (2.8km)
• Mar Wick (4.5km)
• Bay of Skaill (10km)
• Kellyan Hellyan (14.1km)
• Garthna Geo (14.1km)
• Bight of Mousland (16.2km)
• Lyre Geo (16.2km)
• Wood Wick (16.8km)

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

• Brough Head (1km)
• Marwick Head (4.5km)
• Costa Head (7.4km)
• Row Head (10.1km)
• Scabra Head (12.9km)
• Inga Ness (14.2km)
• Aiker Ness (14.4km)
• Bring Head (14.5km)
• Saviskaill Head (18.1km)

lake a large inland body of standing water.

• Loch of Boardhouse (2.8km)
• Loch of Hundland (5.5km)
• Loch of Swannay (6.1km)
• Loch of Harray (15.2km)
• Loch of Stenness (16.4km)

Accommodation around Birsay

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 (0km)
• Georth (14.8km)
• Redland (15.8km)
• Finstown (17.9km)

rock a conspicuous, isolated rocky mass.

• Latha Skerry (2.8km)
• Standard (6.4km)
• Quoy (14.3km)
• Skrowa Skerry (18.1km)

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

• Eynhallow (12.4km)
• Mainland (16.4km)
• Rousay (17.8km)

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

• Weal Race (12.4km)
• Rullard Röst (17.2km)

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 (13.4km)
• North Shoal (19.1km)

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

• Ring of Brogar (16.7km)

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

• Burgar Röst (11.2km)

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

• Skara Brae (10.1km)

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 (13.3km)

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

• Black Craig (18.1km)

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