Ardnave Point

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Dune landscape at Ardnave Point
Rocky coastline

Ardnave Point ( Scottish Gaelic Rubha Aird Nèimh or Àird an Naoimh ) is the tip of the Ardnave peninsula in the northwest of the Hebridean island of Islay . The cape is located on the Atlantic coast across from the island of Nave at the western entrance to the Loch Gruinart inlet . Administratively it belongs to the Council Area Argyll and Bute , or to the historic county of Argyllshire .

The cape is finally about one kilometer wide and consists of a sandy dune landscape. The coastline itself is mostly rocky.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aboyne. In: Francis H. Groome: Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical. Volume 1: (A - Coru). Thomas C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh et al. 1882, p. 66 .
  2. ^ Ardnave Point. In: David Munro, Bruce Gittings: Scotland. An Encyclopedia of Places & Landscapes. Collins et al., Glasgow 2006, ISBN 0-00-472466-6 .

Coordinates: 55 ° 53 ′ 23 "  N , 6 ° 19 ′ 31"  W.