Callanish (Scotland)

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Callanish (Scotland)
Other forms of name
Callernish (Scotland)
nne Callanish (Western Isles, Scotland)
Coordinates
-6.74 -6.74 58.2 58.2 (gooearth )
W0064300 W0064300 N0581200 N0581200 (geonames )
See Also From tracing place name
Calanais (Scotland)
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 146641600
Wikidata: Q1027162
Library of congress: n 85064472
Sources of Information
  • GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009(ppl; 58°12ʹ00ʺN 006°43ʹ00ʺW)
  • University of Glasgow. Dept. of Geography. Callanish, standing stone sites ... 1978:map recto (Callanish, Isle of Lewis)
  • Col. Lipp. gaz., 1962(Callernish or Callanish, port, Lewis with Harris, Outer Hebrides, Ross and Cromarty, Scot.)
  • Bartholomew gaz. of Brit., 1977(Callanish, W. Isles, vil., Lewis)
  • Barth. gaz. of places in Brit., 1986(Callanish, Western Isles, vil. on the w. coast of Lewis; no others cited)
  • Phone call to Scottish Place Names Survey, 15 Jan. 1998(Calanais is now the standard anglicized form of Callanish)