Traveling Luck for Banks Orkney Islands, United Kingdom

Alternatively known as Banks Point

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Weather near Banks Last report from Kirkwall Airport, 16.9km away

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

• Banks (0km)
• Scara Taing (2.2km)
• Odin Ness (3.1km)
• Point of Vastray (4.1km)
• Ness of Boray (4.5km)
• Stromness Taing (5.7km)
• Mou Ness (6km)
• Taing of Trumland (6.3km)
• Point of Skeo (6.3km)
• Point of Hellia (6.5km)
• Point of Avelshay (7.2km)
• Point of the Wart (7.8km)
• Ferry Point (7.9km)
• The Galt (8.2km)
• Vasa Point (8.2km)
• Ramberry (8.2km)
• Point of Backaquoy (8.2km)
• Point of Hisber (8.5km)
• Twinness (8.6km)

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

• Wass Wick (1km)
• Wood Wick (2.2km)
• Bay of Isbister (4km)
• Millburn Bay (5.1km)
• Wide Firth (6.7km)
• Rack Wick (6.7km)
• Bay of Furrowend (8.2km)
• Bay of Firth (8.2km)

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

• Gairsay (4.1km)
• Sweyn Holm (5.1km)
• Holm of Boray (5.5km)
• Wyre (5.7km)
• Grass Holm (6.4km)
• Eynhallow (9.4km)

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

• Crookness (4.1km)
• Tor Ness (4.5km)
• Aiker Ness (5km)
• Salt Ness (7.4km)
• Strombery (8.6km)

Accommodation around Banks

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rock a conspicuous, isolated rocky mass.

• Seal Skerry (3.7km)
• Puldrite Skerry (5km)
• Quoy (6.7km)
• Linga Skerry (7.2km)
• Quanterness Skerry (8km)

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.

• Gairsay Sound (3.7km)
• Wyre Sound (4.5km)
• Eynhallow Sound (7.2km)
• Rousay Sound (9.4km)

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

• North Head (4.1km)
• The Taing (4.5km)
• Hen of Gairsay (5.1km)

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

• Redland (2.9km)
• Georth (3.7km)

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

• Broad Shoal (6.4km)
• Scargun Shoal (8.5km)

rocks conspicuous, isolated rocky masses.

• Skertours (6.4km)
• West Skerries (7.2km)

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

• Burgar Röst (8.5km)

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

• Weal Race (9.4km)

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

• Point of the Graand (9.3km)

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

• Sands of Evie (5.7km)

lake a large inland body of standing water.

• Galt Skerry (8.2km)

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