Portree (/pɔːrˈtriː/; Scottish Gaelic: Port Rìgh, pronounced[pʰɔrˠʃt̪ˈɾiː]) is the largest town on, and capital[2] of, the Isle of Skye in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.[3]
Portree has a harbour, fringed by cliffs, with a pier designed by Thomas Telford.[4] Attractions in the town include the former Aros Centre, now the Isle of Skye Candle Co. Visitor Centre,[5] which celebrates the island's Gaelic heritage. Further arts provision is made through arts organisation ATLAS Arts, a Creative Scotland regularly-funded organisation.[6] The town also serves as a centre for tourists exploring the island.[7]
Around 939 people (37.72% of the population) can speak Scottish Gaelic.
Portree is connected to the Skye Bridge by the A87 road, which then leads northwards to Uig. The A855 road also leads north out of the town, passing through villages such as Achachork, Staffin and passes the rocky landscape of the Storr before reaching the landslip of the Quiraing.
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^Isle of Skye Candle Company, Isle of Skye Candle Co. Visitor Centre, accessed 28 April 2024
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Portree (/pɔːrˈtriː/; Scottish Gaelic: Port Rìgh, pronounced [pʰɔrˠʃt̪ˈɾiː]) is the largest town on, and capital of, the Isle of Skye in the Inner Hebrides...
The Portree Hospital is a health facility in Fancyhill, Portree on the Isle of Skye. It is managed by NHS Highland. The facility, which was commissioned...
MV Portree was a ferry, built in 1965 for the Skye crossing. In 1970, she was re-built and moved to the Kyles of Bute where she served until 1986. MV...
the northernmost peninsula of the Isle of Skye in Scotland, beginning at Portree and terminating at Rubha Hunish. The Trotternish escarpment runs almost...
Portree High School (Gaelic: Àrd-sgoil Phort Rìgh) is a state co-educational comprehensive school in Portree, Isle of Skye in Scotland. As of 2020[update]...
historic county of Inverness-shire. The island's largest settlement is Portree, which is also its capital, known for its picturesque harbour. Links to...
Portree, p.69 See Zak's website, as well as Siddiqi p.593. Another NASA source, Portree p.69, states the focal length was 10 metres; but Portree's document...
simply made him more conspicuous. The next day, the Prince was taken from Portree to the island of Raasay, while MacDonald remained on Skye. They never met...
Steve Starkey, Contact DVD audio commentary, 1997, Warner Home Video Portree, David S. F.; Robert C. Treviño (October 1997). "Walking to Olympus: An...
Tom Taaffe (b. 15 June 1963) is an Irish racehorse trainer based at Portree Stables, Boston, Ardclough, Straffan, in County Kildare. He began training...
FAS. Federation of American Scientists (FAS). Retrieved May 24, 2024. Portree 1995, p. 3-5. Harford, James (1997). Korolev: how one man masterminded...
the original on 9 October 2022. Retrieved 30 August 2019. David S. F. Portree. "MIT Saves the World: Project Icarus (1967)". Wired. Retrieved 21 October...
1016/j.chemer.2005.07.001. "Mars Sample Return". European Space Agency. Portree, David S. F. (November 7, 2012). "Lunar South Pole-Aitken Sample Return...
Fails, Leaving Only 2 for Control". The New York Times. November 24, 1973. Portree, David (November 14, 2015). "Reviving & Reusing Skylab in the Shuttle Era:...
visit it". The Washington Post. Retrieved 16 December 2020. David S. F. Portree, Humans to Mars: Fifty Years of Mission Planning, 1950–2000, NASA Monographs...
thanks to Sir Charles Trevelyan, who arranged for food distribution at Portree and Tobermory. The British Association for the Relief of Distress in Ireland...
archived from the original on February 7, 2016, retrieved 2016-02-10. Portree, David; Loftus, Joseph (1999), "Orbital Debris: A Chronology" (PDF), NASA...
December 2010. Part 1 – Soyuz in Mir Hardware Heritage by David S. F. Portree. "24 April 1967: Russian cosmonaut dies in space crash". On This Day. BBC...
96 (5): 390–398. doi:10.1511/2008.74.390. PMC 2690060. PMID 19498953. Portree, David S. F.; Loftus, Joseph P. Jr. (1999). "Orbital Debris: A Chronology"...
hoped that the central hub of services in Skye could have been based at Portree Hospital; however the Scottish Health Council has pronounced the process...
Ewen Bain. A teuchter is the hero of Scottish musician Bill Hill's The Portree Kid, which parodies the song Ghost Riders in the Sky as "The teuchter that...
IV46, IV47, IV48, IV49, IV55, IV56 ISLE OF SKYE Isle of Skye IV IV51 Portree Isle of Skye IV IV52 Plockton Ross-shire IV IV53 STROME FERRY Ross-shire...
Kingshouse Kingdom of Fife Dalrigh and possibly some of the places called Dalry Portree (disputed) Kingsburgh, Skye is a corruption of Cinnseaborgh, which is in...
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