Dunoon

Holiday resort and former burgh in Argyll and Bute unitary authority, Scotland, on the Firth of Clyde, at the southwest end of the Cowal peninsula, 45 km/28 mi northwest of Glasgow; population (2001) 9,050. On its north side lies Holy Loch, which until 1992 was the site of a US nuclear submarine base.

Over 1,000 pipers converge on Dunoon for the annual Cowal Gathering. Local antiquities include the ruins of a castle, and a monument to Mary Campbell, the heroine of Robert Burns' poem ‘Highland Mary’, who was born in Dunoon.