Mull of Oa

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Mull of Oa

The Mull of Oa ( Gaelic : Maol na h-Obha ), historically also known as the Mull of Kinoe , is a cape on the Oa peninsula on the Scottish island of Islay . The cape is a maximum of 150 m wide and protrudes 200 m from the land mass. It forms the south-eastern end of the Loch Indaal bay .

A monument on the Mull of Oa commemorates the shooting down of the Tuscania ship and the sinking of the Otranto off the coast during the First World War . During the Second World War a warship of the Royal Navy was named Mull of Oa (see also: List of Historic Ships of the Royal Navy ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of Gaelic expressions
  2. ^ CI Jackson (Ed.): The Artic whaling Journals of William Scoresby the Younger, Vol. III: The Voyages of 1817, 1818 and 1820 , Ashgate Publishing, Farnham, 2009, p. 210. ISBN 978-0-904180-95 -4
  3. ^ Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
  4. ^ D. Porter, D. Prince: Frommer's Great Britain , Wiley Publishing, Hoboken, 2nd Edition, 2003, p. 584. ISBN 978-0-764538-23-0
  5. ^ JJ Colledge, B. Warlow: Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy , Casemate, Havertown, 2009. ISBN 978-1-935149-07-1

Coordinates: 55 ° 35 ′ 23 "  N , 6 ° 20 ′ 11"  W.