"Most Northerly Point of Mainland Britain"

Sketch map of Dunnet Head, showing position of Easter Head

Dunnet Head (Scottish Gaelic: Ceann Dùnaid) is a peninsula that includes the most northerly point of the mainland of Great Britain. The point lies in Caithness on the north coast of Scotland. The point, known also as Easter Head, is at 58°40′21″N, 03°22′31″W (grid reference ND202767), about 18 km (eleven miles) west/northwest of John o' Groats and about 20 km (twelve miles) from Duncansby Head. Dunnet Head can be seen also as the western limit of the Pentland Firth on the firth's southern or Caithness side. (Duncansby Head is the eastern limit.) Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (1600 × 1200 pixel, file size: 928 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Dunnet Head, Scotland. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (1600 × 1200 pixel, file size: 928 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Dunnet Head, Scotland. ... Image File history File links Small sketch map of Dunnet Head in northern Scotland. ... Image File history File links Small sketch map of Dunnet Head in northern Scotland. ... Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... A peninsula in Croatia A peninsula (from the latin words paene insula, almost island) is a geographical landform consisting of an extension of a body of land from a larger body of land, surrounded by water on three sides. ... This article is about the geomorphological/geopolitical term; MAINLAND is also a cheese brand owned by Fonterra, a New Zealand dairy company. ... Caithness (Gallaibh in Gaelic)[1] is a committee area of Highland Council, Scotland; a lieutenancy area; and a registration county, Caithness was formerly a district within the Highland region from 1975 to 1996 and a local government county with its own county council from 1890 to 1975. ... Motto: (Latin) No one provokes me with impunity(English) Wha daur meddle wi me? (Scots)[1] Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow Official languages English, Gaelic, Scots[2] Government  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP  - First Minister Jack McConnell MSP Unification    - by Kenneth I... The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ... km redirects here. ... John o Groats location within the British Isles John o Groats (Taigh Iain Ghròt in Scottish Gaelic) (grid reference ND380734) is a village in the traditional county of Caithness, in the Highland region of Scotland, and is usually regarded as the most northerly settlement on the mainland of... Duncansby Head ( , grid reference ND405733) is one of the most northerly parts of the Scottish mainland, and is near John O Groats, Caithness, Highland. ... The Pentland Firth, which is actually more of a strait than a firth, separates the Orkney Islands from Caithness, which is in the far north of the Highland area of Scotland. ... Firth is the Scots word used to denote various coastal waters in Scotland. ...

The headland's boundary with the rest of the Scottish mainland can be defined as a north-south line running from Little Clett (ND220740) to the mouth of Dunnet Burn (ND217709) in Dunnet Bay. This line is followed along most of its route by a single track road, the B855 that links Brough with the village of Dunnet, making this the most northerly road on mainland Britain. From this line the headland projects westward and northward into the Atlantic Ocean and the Pentland Firth, and shelters the more southerly waters of Dunnet Bay. The bay at San Sebastián, Spain A headland is an area of land adjacent to water on three sides. ... A single track road is a narrow road that is only of sufficient width to allow the passage of one vehicle. ... The B855 road is a single track road in Caithness, in the Highland area of Scotland, which links the A836 and Dunnet with Easter Head (Dunnet Head point) , across a distance of about 6 kilometres or 4 miles. ... Dunnet is a village in Caithness, in Highland Scotland. ...

The peninsula is east of the burgh of Thurso and on a clear day it affords excellent views of the islands Stroma to the east, and Hoy and the Orkney Mainland 15 km (nine miles) away to the north, across the Pentland Firth. A sign in Linlithgow, Scotland. ... This article refers to the town in Scotland. ... The island of Stroma, which in the Norse means ‘Island in the Stream’, is the southern of the two islands situated in the Pentland Firth between the Orkney Islands and Caithness on the Scottish mainland. ... Hoy shown within Orkney Islands Hoy (from Old Norse há-øy meaning high island) is one of the Orkney Islands. ... The Mainland, Orkney shown within The Orkney Islands The Mainland is the main island of Orkney, Scotland. ...

The Dunnet Head lighthouse.

Looking west from the cliffs at Easter Head, towards Cape Wrath, in 2002.

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Dunnet Head Lighthouse

A lighthouse stands on the 300-ft (90-m) cliff top of Easter Head. Dunnet Head Lighthouse is 345 ft (105 m) tall and it was built in 1831 by Robert Stevenson, grandfather of Robert Louis Stevenson. A HDR image of a traditional lighthouse For other uses, see Lighthouse (disambiguation). ... This article is about a foot as a unit of length. ... Look up M, m in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Leopold I 1831 (MDCCCXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Robert Stevenson (8 June 1772–1850) was a Scottish lighthouse engineer and stepson of Thomas Smith, also a lighthouse engineer. ... Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13, 1850–December 3, 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. ...

Near the lighthouse are minor fortifications built during World War II to protect the naval base at Scapa Flow, and a bunker used by the Royal Observer Corps during the Cold War. Burifa Hill on Dunnett Head was the site of the master station and a monitoring station of the northern GEE chain of radio navigation stations during World War II. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Aerial Photo of Scapa Flow Scapa Flow is a body of water in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, sheltered by the islands of Mainland, Graemsay, Burray, South Ronaldsay and Hoy. ... The Royal Observer Corps (ROC) was, until stood down in 1991, a part of the UK Ministry of Defence. ... For other uses, see Cold War (disambiguation). ... GEE (short for Grid and pronounced simply as G) or AMES Type 7000 was a British radio navigation system used during World War II; the ideas in GEE were developed by the Americans into the LORAN system. ...

Angling

Dunnet Head lochs are restocked routinely with brown trout fry. Fishing by permit is between April and early October. Permits are available from the Dunnet Head Fishing Association. View across Loch Lomond, towards Ben Lomond. ... Binomial name Salmo trutta Linnaeus, 1758 Morphs Salmo trutta morpha trutta Salmo trutta morpha fario Salmo trutta morpha lacustris The Brown Trout (Salmo trutta morpha fario and morpha lacustris) and the Sea Trout ( morpha trutta) are fish of the same species distinguished chiefly by the fact that the brown trout...

Information centre

Dunnet Head Information Centre is north/northwest of Brough on the B855. The B855 road is a single track road in Caithness, in the Highland area of Scotland, which links the A836 and Dunnet with Easter Head (Dunnet Head point) , across a distance of about 6 kilometres or 4 miles. ...