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Auckengill Bay, Caithness, Scotland, UK. Auckengill Bay on the North-west coast of Scotland. Auckengill is a settlement, 6 miles (10 kilometres) south of John O' Groats, on the east coast of Caithness, within the Scottish council area of Highland. Auckengill is situated 1â„2 mile (800 metres) north of Nybster. As Caithness is the Viking capital of mainland Scotland, Auckengill has a museum of Viking history called the Northlands Viking Centre. The museum examines the history of the Norse from Norway to Shetland, Orkney and Caithness. On display are models of the Viking settlement at Freswick and a Viking Longship. There is also a shop and picnic area. The museum is the site of the annual Scottish-Scandinavian Northlands Festival in September. Caithness, historic county in extreme northern Scotland, facing the Atlantic Ocean and the Pentland Firth (which separates it from the Orkney Islands) on the north and the North Sea on the east. It contains Dunnet Head, the northernmost point in Great Britain, which juts into the Atlantic east of Thurso.