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Viruedrum

Οὐιρουεδροὺμ ἄκρον

Viruedrum (Οὐιρουεδροὺμ ἄκρον, Ptol. 2.3.5), a promontory on the N. coast of Britannia Barbara, and the most N. point of the island. It is apparently the present Dungsby Head. (Camden, p. 1280.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.