Auckengill is a settlement, south of John o' Groats, on the east coast of

Caithness Caithness ( gd, Gallaibh ; sco, Caitnes; non, Katanes) is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland. Caithness has a land boundary with the historic county of Sutherland to the west and is otherwise bounded by ...

, within the

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council area of

Highland Highlands or uplands are areas of high elevation such as a mountainous region, elevated mountainous plateau or high hills. Generally speaking, upland (or uplands) refers to ranges of hills, typically from up to while highland (or highlands) is ...

. Auckengill is situated north of Nybster.

Museum

is the

Viking Vikings ; non, víkingr is the modern name given to seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded and se ...

capital of mainland Scotland, Auckengill has a museum of Viking history called the ''Northlands Viking Centre''. The museum examines the history of the Norse from

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

Shetland Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands and formerly Zetland, is a subarctic archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands and Norway. It is the northernmost region of the United Kingdom. The islands lie about to the no ...

Orkney Orkney (; sco, Orkney; on, Orkneyjar; nrn, Orknøjar), also known as the Orkney Islands, is an archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland, situated off the north coast of the island of Great Britain. Orkney is 10 miles (16 km) north ...

and

. On display are models of the Viking settlement at

Freswick Freswick ( ) or Skirsa, is a small remote hamlet, overlooking Freswick Bay to the east, in eastern Caithness, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. The village of Skirza lies directly northeast of Freswick. Name ...

and a Viking

Longship Longships were a type of specialised Scandinavian warships that have a long history in Scandinavia, with their existence being archaeologically proven and documented from at least the fourth century BC. Originally invented and used by the Nors ...

. There is also a shop and picnic area. The museum is the site of the annual Scottish-Scandinavian Northlands Festival in September.

Gallery

File:Loch of Auckengill - geograph.org.uk - 438382.jpg, Loch in Auckengill. File:Broch at Auckengill - geograph.org.uk - 438414.jpg, A broch in Auckengill. File:Road at Auckengill - geograph.org.uk - 824066.jpg, Main road of Auckengill. File:Auckengill jetty - geograph.org.uk - 24854.jpg, Auckengill Jetty with man made dock. File:Road southeast at Auckengill - geograph.org.uk - 824062.jpg, Looking southeast from the settlement. File:Looking northeast at Auckengill - geograph.org.uk - 824058.jpg, Looking northeast from Auckengill. File:Map of Caithness-shire Sheet 014, Ordnance Survey, 1876-1878.jpg, Map of Caithness of 1878-1879 map showing land available for cultivation.

Museum

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