![Scrubby coastal area at the north of Kildonald Bay - geograph](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Scrubby_coastal_area_at_the_north_of_Kildonald_Bay_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1449566.jpg)
Kilbrannan Sound (
Scottish Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic ( gd, Gàidhlig ), also known as Scots Gaelic and Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a Goidelic language, Scottish Gaelic, as well as ...
: ''An Caolas Branndanach'') is a marine water body that separates 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 ...
of
Scotland
Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ...
from the island of
Arran.
Kilbrannan Sound is the western arm of the
Firth of Clyde
The Firth of Clyde is the mouth of the River Clyde. It is located on the west coast of Scotland and constitutes the deepest coastal waters in the British Isles (it is 164 metres deep at its deepest). The firth is sheltered from the Atlantic ...
.
See also
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Dippen Bay
Dippen Bay is an embayment along Kilbrannan Sound on the east coast of the Kintyre Peninsula in Scotland. Coastal erosion
Coastal erosion is the loss or displacement of land, or the long-term removal of sediment and rocks along the coas ...
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Kildonald Bay
Kildonald Bay is a bay on the eastern side of the Kintyre Peninsula of Scotland.Ron Scholes. 1985 Kildonald Bay is an element of Kilbrannan Sound that separates the Kintyre Peninsula from the Isle of Arran. Other bays along the east side of the K ...
References
Sounds of Argyll and Bute
Landforms of the Isle of Arran
Firth of Clyde
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