It is located on the Lochalsh peninsula, at the entrance to Loch Alsh, opposite the village of Kyleakin on the Isle of Skye.The village is the transport and shopping centre for the area as well as having a harbour and marina with pontoons for maritime visitors.A land-based control centre of the Royal Naval BUTEC submarine range is based in Kyle of Lochalsh.[5] Kyle of Lochalsh lies almost precisely 500 miles (800 kilometres) due north of Land's End in Cornwall.[6] Kyle of Lochalsh was the departure point, on New Year's Eve 1918, of the HMY Iolaire, which was bringing home soldiers returning from World War I to the Outer Hebrides.