Ward Hill
Ward Hill is a hill on the island of Hoy in Orkney, Scotland. It lies at the north of the island between Moaness and Rackwick, and is the highest point in both Orkney and the Scottish Northern Isles at an elevation of 481 m.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Grinner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,578 feet
- Description: hill on the island of Hoy, Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Ward Hill, Hoy”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cuilags and Dwarfie Stane.
Dwarfie Stane
The Dwarfie Stane is a megalithic chambered tomb carved out of a titanic block of Devonian Old Red Sandstone located in a steep-sided glaciated valley between the settlements of Quoys and Rackwick on Hoy, an island in Orkney, Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rora Head and Stromness.
Stromness
Stromness is a port on the Mainland of the Orkney Islands, with a population of roughly 2200. To the Vikings, Straumsnes meant the headland just south, where a fierce tide rips between Scapa Flow and the Atlantic; get past that and you came safely into Hamnavoe or "peaceful harbour" where the town now stands.
Bu‘ Point
Locality
Photo: John Ireland, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bu‘ Point is a locality, which is situated 5 miles northeast of Ward Hill.
Ward Hill
- Categories: hill and landform
- Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.90043° or 58° 54′ 2″ northLongitude
-3.34057° or 3° 20′ 26″ westElevation
1,578 feet (481 metres)Open location code
9CCRWM25+5QOpenStreetMap ID
node 612578114OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Ward Hill” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Ward Hill”
- Catalan: “Ward Hill”
- Cebuano: “Ward Hill (bukid sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Scotland, Orkney Islands, lat 58,90, long -3,33)”
- Cebuano: “Ward Hill”
- Dutch: “Ward Hill”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل وارد هيل”
- French: “Ward Hill”
- Galician: “Ward Hill”
- Hebrew: “גבעת וורד”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ward Hill”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ward Hill på Hoy”
- Norwegian: “Ward Hill”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ward Hill”
- Spanish: “Ward Hill”
- Swedish: “Ward Hill”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Quoyawa and Howes of Quoyawa.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sandy Loch and Hoy.
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