Horse Island

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Horse Island is an uninhabited island in the Summer Isles, in the north west of Scotland. ()

Alternative names: Coordinates: 57°59'17"N, 5°20'32"W

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Horse Island – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Stac Pollaidh, Sgurr an Fhidhleir, Beinn an Eoin, Eilean Mullagrach.

6.3 miNE
Natural attraction, Park, Mountain
Stac Pollaidh, Achiltibuie
160 min walk • Stac Pollaidh IPA: is a mountain in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. The peak displays a rocky crest of Torridonian sandstone, with many pinnacles and steep gullies.
4.3 miE
Mountain
Sgurr an Fhidhleir, Assynt
110 min walk • Sgurr an Fhidhleir is a mountain in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. It lies in the Coigach area of Ross and Cromarty. Its summit lies atop a spectacular vertical 500m high cliff.
5 miE
Mountain
Beinn an Eoin, Assynt
129 min walk • Beinn an Eoin is a mountain in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. It lies in the remote Coigach area in the far northwest of Scotland, north of Ullapool.
6 miNW
Area
Eilean Mullagrach, Assynt
153 min walk • Eilean Mullagrach is an island in the Summer Isles of Scotland. It is located in Highland council area, in the northwestern part of the country, 800 km northwest of the capital London. It is the most northerly of the Summer Isles. Its area is 29 hectares. It is 150 feet high.
4.3 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Ben Mor Coigach, Achiltibuie
109 min walk • Ben Mor Coigach is the highest point along a ridge rising steeply from Loch Broom, in the far north-west of Scotland. It rises above the Coigach peninsula, in the county of Ross and Cromarty, 10 kilometres north-west of Ullapool, reaching a height of 743 metres.
6.9 miNE
Neighbourhood
Inverpolly, Achiltibuie
177 min walk • Inverpolly is the name given to a large area of northern Wester Ross in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland, north of Ullapool. The area contains several prominent hills, rising up from a rough landscape of bogs and lochans.
3.1 miNW
Island
Tanera Mòr
78 min walk • Tanera Mòr is an uninhabited island in Loch Broom in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It is the largest of the Summer Isles and was the last inhabited island in that group.
4 miW
Island
Tanera Beag
101 min walk • Tanera Beag or Tanera Beg is an uninhabited island in the Summer Isles off north west Scotland. It is called "Tanera Beag" to distinguish it from Tanera Mòr, "Big Tanera".
5.2 miNW
Island
Isle Ristol
133 min walk • Isle Ristol, the innermost of the Summer Isles in Scotland, is a Scottish Wildlife Trust Reserve. Lying roughly 12 miles north of Ullapool in Wester Ross, it is a tidal island, in Loch an Alltain Duibh, that is separated by a narrow channel from Old Dorney Bay.
5.2 miSE
Island
Isle Martin
134 min walk • Isle Martin is an uninhabited island in Loch Broom, on the west coast of Scotland. It is the closest of the Summer Isles to Ullapool and has been the site of a monastery, a herring curing station and a flour mill.
3.3 miW
Island
Eilean Dubh
85 min walk • Eilean Dubh is an uninhabited island in Loch Broom, one of the smaller Summer Isles. It lies about two miles south of Tanera Beag and has probably not been permanently occupied.