Chambered cairn at Rubha an Dùnain

Rubha an Dùnain, today an uninhabited peninsula to the south of the Cuillin hills on Skye, contains the small Loch na h-Airde, which is connected to the sea by a short artificial canal.

Whiting Bay ( Gaelic: Eadar Dhà Rubha ) is a village located on the Isle of Arran in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland.

The chief capes include Tarbat Ness on the east coast, and Coigach, Greenstone Point, Rubha Reidh, Redpoint and Hamha Point on the west.

There is a burial site from this period known as Uaigh Righ Lochlainn (" The grave of the King of Norway ") at Rubha Langan-innis on the north coast.

The largest island in the group is Lunga, which is west of Gometra, southwest of Rubha ' a ' Chaoil on Mull, south east of Coll, and north west of Staffa.

From it, we learn that early on, Keith was known as " Kethmalruff ", a dedication to Saint Maol Rubha ( d. 722 ), also Latinised as " St Rufus ".

At the south of the island near Mull is Sgeir a ' Charraig, and there is Sgeir Dubhail off Rubha nan Gall ( north coast ), to the south east near Cùl a ' Gheata are Sgeir nan Leac, Sgeir Bhioramuill, and Bogha MhicGuaire (" MacQuarrie's rock ").

One fine day he was going over to Uist in a rowing boat, and some old men of the island were down at the place called Gob a ' Rubha, the point past the pier.

The most northerly point of Trotternish, Rubha Hùinis, is also the most northerly point of Skye.

This north-west tip of Skye is remote but glorious and has earned praise from travellers and walkers for some time ; the trek to Rubha Hunish.

The name Rhubodach may come from the Gaelic Rubha a ’ Bhodaich which translates as old man's point or promontory or alternatively may be from An Rubha Bhódaich meaning the Bute headland.

An 1801 map produced by George Langlands identified nine villages: Kilmory to the north at the head of Glen Kilmory, Samhnan Insir just to the north between Kilmory and Rubha Samhnan Insir, Camas Pliasgiag in the northeast, " Kinlochscresort ", ( the modern Kinloch ), Cove ( Laimhrige at Bagh na h-Uamha in the east ), Dibidil in the southeast, Papadil in the south, Harris in the southwest, and Guirdil at the head of Glen Shellesder in the northwest.

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To the west of Achduin the land is relatively flat and low-lying, the area known as " The Aird " ending at Nisam Point which overlooks the little islands of Rubha Niosaim and Sgeir Mhor.

The south coast is dominated by high cliffs, which rise to at Skate Point ( Rubha Sgait ) in the south west.

Keith ( Scottish Gaelic: Baile Chèith, or Cèith Mhaol Rubha ( archaic )) is a small town in the Moray council area in north east Scotland.

Point ( an Rubha in Gaelic ) is connected by road across a narrow isthmus ( barely 100 metres wide ) to Stornoway, the main administrative centre of the Western Isles.

In the north west, there is a headland ( Rubha ) and mountain ( Beinn ) of the priest ( an t-sagairt ), and a Rubha na Manach ( monk's headland ) in the south west.

Other historical references occur in the island's names, such as Bàgh Clann Neill in the west, Rubha Creag Mhic Fhionnlaigh and Bàgh na h-Eireannach in the north.

Duncansby Head ( Grid reference ) ( Gaelic: Rubha Duncansby ) is the most north-easterly part of the Scottish mainland, including even the famous John o ' Groats, Caithness, Highland.

On flowing out of the lake it passes through Thun, and then flows through the city of Bern, passing beneath eighteen bridges and around the steeply-flanked peninsula on which the Old City is located.

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As many as 200 settlers lived in the nameless village in what is now present day Ingonish ( location according to some historians ) on the island's northeastern peninsula.

On the map of Ptolemy, the " Kimbroi " are placed on the northernmost part of the peninsula of Jutland., i. e. in the modern landscape of Himmerland south of Limfjorden ( since Vendsyssel-Thy north of the fjord was at that time a group of islands ).

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