Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Duncansbay Head

Duncansbay Head, prom., Caithness-shire, 18½ miles N. of Wick, forming NE. extremity of Scottish mainland, alt. 210 ft.; 1 mile S. are Duncansbay Stacks, 3 rocks detached from the mainland.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "promontory"   (ADL Feature Type: "capes")
Administrative units: Caithness ScoCnty
Place: Duncansby

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