Buchan Ness, a low but rocky peninsula of E Aberdeenshire, in the S of Peterhead parish, and 2½ miles S of Peterhead town. Joined to the mainland at Boddam village by a beach of small rounded stones, it is 1½ furlong long, is mainly composed of hornstone and hornstone-porphyry, and is crowned by a circular granite lighthouse (erected in 1827 at a cost of £11,912), whose revolving lantern, 130 feet above sea-level, exhibits a flashing light once every five seconds, visible for 17½ nautical miles.
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