Mull of Galloway
The Mull of Galloway ( Scottish Gaelic Maol nan Gall , "bare hill of strangers") is the southern cape of the Rhins of Galloway peninsula in the Council Area Dumfries and Galloway and thus the southernmost point of Scotland .
The west and east coast differ enormously in their appearance: while the west coast is a rocky cliff , the land slopes to the east and forms flat beaches there. This also makes the region interesting for tourists. The tourism industry is now the second largest employer in the region after agriculture.
Since 1830, the Mull of Galloway Lighthouse, a 26-meter-high lighthouse on the cape, which is now also used as a museum, but is still in operation. The area around the tower is a nature reserve in which numerous animal and plant species are protected.
A turf-covered oval cairn is located on a low hill 40 m north of the lighthouse. It measures 16.5 × 15 m across and reaches a height of 2.2 m. During the construction of an aqueduct near the cairn, two approximately 30 cm wide two shallow parallel grooves were discovered in the natural outcrop on which the pile of stones lies. The grooves appear to be aligned with the center of the cairn.
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Coordinates: 54 ° 38 ′ 9 ″ N , 4 ° 51 ′ 52 ″ W.