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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "WHITEN HEAD":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Ben Hutig	Sutherland	Whiten Head at 1340 feet above sea-level. Consisting chiefly of gneiss, it forms the commencement of a range about	Groome
  Durness	Sutherland	Whiten Head. Lastly; the river Hope, formed by three principal head-streams at an altitude of 94 feet, flows 6¼ miles	Groome
  Eriboll	Sutherland	Whiten Head and Rispond Point, and penetrating 10½ miles south-south-westward. Its breadth varies between 5 furlongs and 2¼ miles	Groome
  Farout Head or Fair-aird	Sutherland	Head or Fair-aird, a promontory in Durness parish, N Sutherland, projecting 2¼ miles north-north-westward, between Balnakiel or Baile na Cille Bay on the W and the entrance to Loch Eriboll on the E, till it terminates in a point 8½ miles ESE of Cape Wrath. Its sides rise in rocky cliffs to a height of 329 feet above sea-level, and present a sublime appearance; its summit commands a magnificent view from Cape Wrath to Whiten	Groome
  Fraisgill	Sutherland	Whiten Head and the E coast of Loch Eriboll, 6 miles NNE of Heilem ferry. Measuring 50 feet in height	Groome
  Freasgeal	Sutherland	Freasgeal , cavern, Durness par., Sutherland, on E. side of Loch Erriboll, at Whiten Head; is ½ mile long.	Bartholomew
  Kennageall	Sutherland	Kennageall , Sutherland. See WHITEN HEAD.	Bartholomew
  KERRY	Kerry	Head stretches a bank of upland, which, as it proceeds westwardly, becomes chiefly a heathy moor, rising to a considerable height at its termination: it is composed of thick beds of argillaceous sandstone, nearly horizontal, in the partings of which the beautiful quartz crystals called Kerry stones are found: they are transparent and regular, and very hard. Steel-grained lead is also found traversing this formation. On its southern side this bank is more slaty and somewhat calcareous, being mixed, near Ballyheigue, with lesser masses of close-grained conglomerate. On the west is a low sandy flat and salt marsh	Lewis:Ireland
  Sutherland	Sutherland	Head; the broad projecting mass of land to the E of the entrance to Loch Eriboll is Kennageall or Whiten	Groome
  Tongue	Sutherland	head of Loch Derry. Both streams and lochs afford splendid fishing.- Measured along all its ins and outs, the coast, from the entrance of Tongue Bay, extends 7 1 / 8 miles west-north-westward to within 1 mile of Loch Eriboll, and 5 3 / 8 miles eastward and south-eastward to the middle of Torrisdale Bay. It is nearly everywhere rocky and precipitous, rising rapidly to a height of 935 feet above the sea at Whiten	Groome
  Whiten Head	Sutherland	Whiten Head (Gael. Ceana Geal Mor), a towering white headland on the N coast of Sutherland, in Durness and Tongue	Groome
  Whiten Head	Sutherland	Whiten Head , lofty headland, on N. coast of Sutherland, between Loch Eriboll and Kyle of Tongue.	Bartholomew

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