Dunnet Head
Dunnet Head | ||
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Coordinates | 58 ° 40 ′ 20 " N , 3 ° 22 ′ 30" W | |
Waters 1 | Pentland Firth | |
Waters 2 | Dunnet Bay | |
length | 5.8 km | |
width | 4.4 km |
Dunnet Head is a peninsula on the northeast coast of Scotland and forms the northernmost point of the main British island. The peninsula belongs to the county of Caithness . At her neck is the lake of St John's Loch .
Dunnet Head has had a lighthouse since 1831, the Dunnet Head Lighthouse . The lighthouse was built by Robert Stevenson , the grandfather of the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson . Since 1995 the lighthouse is no longer operated manually, but automatically. You can look over the Pentland Firth to the Orkney Islands . Nearby towns are Thurso and John o 'Groats .
Web links
Commons : Dunnet Head - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Pictures and information about the lighthouse on Fredis Scotland pages