Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Start Point

Start Point, headland, at E. extremity of Sanday island, Orkney; has a lighthouse 91 ft. high, with fixed light (Start Point, Ronaldsha Firth) 80 ft. above high water and seen 14 miles.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "headland"   (ADL Feature Type: "harbors")
Administrative units: Orkney County

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