Traveling Luck for Bay of Backaland Orkney Islands, United Kingdom

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Weather near Bay of Backaland Last report from Kirkwall Airport, 27.9km away

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

• Bay of Backaland (0km)
• Bay of Stove (4.1km)
• Oyce of Huip (4.5km)
• Bay of Greentoft (4.5km)
• Mill Bay (5km)
• Bay of Franks (5.5km)
• Bay of London (5.7km)
• Saint Catherines Bay (5.7km)
• Braes Wick (6km)
• Fersness Bay (6.4km)
• Sealskerry Bay (7.1km)
• Mill Bay (8.2km)
• Bay of Bomasty (8.2km)

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

• Little Linga (2.2km)
• Linga Holm (2.8km)
• Holm of Huip (3.1km)
• Eday (5.5km)
• Papa Stronsay (7.4km)
• Stronsay Island (7.8km)
• Muckle Green Holm (8.2km)
• Calf of Eday (8.2km)
• Muckle Green Holm (9.1km)
• Faray (9.3km)

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

• Spur Ness (2.2km)
• Links Ness (2.8km)
• Strang Quoy (6km)
• War Ness (6.5km)
• Greenan Nev (7.8km)
• Fers Ness (8.2km)
• Grice Ness (8.4km)
• Grunavi Head (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.

• Spurness Sound (1km)
• Eday Sound (2.8km)
• Linga Sound (2.8km)
• Huip Sound (3.6km)
• Papa Sound (6.1km)
• Lashy Sound (8km)
• Sound of Faray (8.5km)

Accommodation around Bay of Backaland

Albert Hotel Mounthoolie Lane, Kirkwall

Houton Bay Lodge Houton Bay, Orphir

Murray Arms Hotel Back Road, South Ronaldsay

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

• The Graand (4.2km)
• Dennis Skerry (4.5km)
• Swarf (6km)
• Lyren (8km)

rock a conspicuous, isolated rocky mass.

• Quiabow (5.1km)
• Warness Skerry (6.5km)
• Seal Skerry (7.1km)
• Harp Skerry (9.1km)

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

• Hacks Ness (4.5km)
• Point of Scaraber (8.2km)
• North Taing (8.2km)

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

• South Skerry (4.1km)
• Eday Gruna (4.5km)
• Kierlie Shoal (8.5km)

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

• Huip Ness (5.5km)
• Quoy Ness (6.7km)
• Lamba Ness (8km)

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

• The Kell (2.2km)
• Fall of Warness (7.4km)

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

• Whitehall (5.5km)

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

• Holms of Spurness (1km)

headland a high projection of land extending into a large body of water beyond the line of the coast.

• Veness (3.6km)

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

• Papa Gruna (8.2km)

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