Ragged shoreline leading to Dippen Bay - geograph

Dippen Bay is an

embayment A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a gulf, sea, sound, or bight. A cove is a small, circular bay with a narr ...

along

Kilbrannan Sound Kilbrannan Sound (Scottish Gaelic: ''An Caolas Branndanach'') is a marine water body that separates the Kintyre Peninsula of Scotland from the island of Arran. Kilbrannan Sound is the western arm of the Firth of Clyde. See also * Dippen Bay * Ki ...

on the east coast of the

Kintyre Peninsula Kintyre ( gd, Cinn Tìre, ) is a peninsula in western Scotland, in the southwest of Argyll and Bute. The peninsula stretches about , from the Mull of Kintyre in the south to East and West Loch Tarbert in the north. The region immediately north ...

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has been documented at Dippen Bay as well as nearby Torrisdale Bay.Escape.org The bay is located along the coast near the hamlet of Dippen.

Notes

References

Gazetteer for Scotland. 2009. ''Dippen: Argyll and Bute''

Escape.org, ''Coastal geology Port na Chuile to Greenport
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