Dunnet Head On Visit To North Coast Of Caithness Northern Highlands Of Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video clip, with Scottish music, of Dunnet Head, Scottish Gaelic: Ceann Dùnaid, a peninsula in Caithness, on the north coast of the Highlands. Dunnet Head includes the most northerly point of both mainland Scotland and the island of Great Britain. Dunnet Head has a viewing platform where visitors can watch birds in the neighbouring cliffs. Depending on the season, birds may include fulmars, guillemots, kittiwakes, puffins, great skuas, arctic skuas, razorbills, and, at sea, gannets and herring gulls. The 19th century lighthouse that stands on the 300 foot high cliff top of Easter Head on Dunnet Head is 66 feet tall and was built in 1831 by Robert Stevenson, grandfather of Robert Louis Stevenson. The lighthouse was automated in 1989, and the keepers were withdrawn. Although Easter Head is the most northerly point on the Scottish mainland, the northernmost point of Scotland lies in the Shetland islands, approximately 170 miles further north. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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