Mull of Kintyre

55 311 - 5.804Koordinaten: 55 ° 18 ' 40 " N, 5 ° 48' 14 " W

The Mull of Kintyre ( schott Gaelic Maol Chinn Tire, pronunciation. [ Mɯ ː l ˠ ̪ çiɲt ʲ ʰ i ː ɾ ʲ ə ]; mull in Scotland for cape, promontory, from schott Gael maol = " bald ") is the Ireland closest Cape in the south of Scottish Kintyre peninsula west of Glasgow.

The southernmost point of the peninsula is called Rubha Chlachan; from there, the peninsula extends 70 km ( with Knapdale about 90 km ) to the north. From the Cape of you have a good view to the North Antrim coast in Northern Ireland with the Rathlin Iceland. The rock island Ailsa Craig can be seen in the east of the Cape.

Others

The cape was known worldwide in 1977, when Paul McCartney and his band Wings released the song Mull of Kintyre.

The Mull -of- Kintyre test was an unofficial rule of the British film censorship, which until 2003 had stock. Then could be seen in a movie no erection, in which a penis a higher angle to the vertical formed as the ( on a map similar-looking penis ) Kintyre Peninsula to the Scottish mainland.

Mull of Kintyre in the foreground, the North Channel ( Straits of Moyle ) and in the background the coast of Northern Ireland