Machrihanish
Machrihanish (Scottish Gaelic: Machaire Shanais, pronounced [maxəɾʲə hanɪʃ]) is a village in Argyll, Scotland. Machrihanish has a classic links golf course described by many as the defining links course in Scotland. According to one survey it has the best opening hole in the world. A new course is being built nearby called Machrihanish Dunes. It is part of a multi-million pound development by an American company, which has renovated the previously dilapidated Ugadale hotel in the village.
Campbeltown Airport, formerly RAF Machrihanish, is located near the village. Although still available to the Royal Air Force, it has gone on sale as the RAF have deemed it no longer of use to them. Coal was mined near the village.
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden built a radio transmitting station with a 400-foot (120 m) high mast here in 1905 to transmit Wireless Telegraphy to a similar station at Brant Rock in Massachusetts, USA. An exchange of messages took place on 1 January 1906 but the mast blew down in a gale on 5 December 1906 and was never rebuilt.
Cadets from the Air Training Corps recreated this historic trans-atlantic transmission in Easter of 2006. Edinburgh and South Scotland Wing, who were on camp at the nearby airfield, contacted the Civil Air Patrol cadets in Brant Rock on the 14th April 2006. Air Cadets website
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- Machrihanish website
- Machrihanish Visitor Guide | Home To Scottish Links Golf
- Map sources for Machrihanish
- Machrihanish Golf Club
Coordinates: 55°25′23″N 5°44′14″W / 55.42301°N 5.73735°W
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