Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Camisendun

Camisendun, a bay in Durness parish, Sutherland, within Loch Eriboll, near the ferry, 6½ miles ESE of Durness village. It affords excellent anchorage; and is a resort of vessels, under stress of weather, unable to double Cape Wrath or attempt the Pentland Firth.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

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Feature Description: "a bay"   (ADL Feature Type: "bays")
Administrative units: Durness ScoP       Sutherland ScoCnty

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