Depending on the season, birds may include fulmars, guillemots, kittiwakes, puffins, great skuas, arctic skuas, razorbills, and - at sea - gannets and herring gulls. There was also an artillery range on Dunnet Head during World War II.ĭunnet Head lochs are restocked every two years with brown trout fry fishing by permit is between 1 April and early October.ĭunnet Head has a viewing platform where visitors can watch birds in the neighbouring cliffs. Burifa Hill on Dunnet Head was the site of the master station and a monitoring station of the northern GEE chain of radio navigation stations during World War II. Near the Dunnet Head lighthouse are minor fortifications built during World War II to protect the naval base at Scapa Flow, including a Chain Home Low radar station and a bunker used by the Royal Observer Corps during the Cold War. The peninsula is north-east of the burgh of Thurso, and on a clear day, it affords views of the islands of Stroma to the east, and Hoy and the Orkney Mainland, 15 km (9 miles) away to the north, across the Pentland Firth. From this line, the headland projects westward and northward into the Atlantic Ocean and the Pentland Firth and shelters the more southerly waters of Dunnet Bay. This line is followed along most of its route by a single track road, the B855, which links Brough with the village of Dunnet, making this the most northerly road on mainland Britain.
The headland's boundary with the rest of the Scottish mainland can be defined as a north–south line running from Little Clett ( ND220740) to the mouth of Dunnet Burn ( ND217709) in Dunnet Bay.
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