Ve Skerries
The Ve Skerries or Vee Skerries are a group of low skerries three miles north west of Papa Stour, on the west coast of Shetland, Scotland. They define the southwest perimeter of St Magnus Bay.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Biggings.
Biggings
Hamlet
Photo: Mark Stockdale, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Biggings is a village on the island of Papa Stour, in Shetland, Scotland. Papa Stour's church is situated at the south of Biggings. A homestead of Duke Haakon of Norway is thought to have been at Biggings, and archaeological digs have discovered the remains of a substantial Norse house, dating to around the 12th or 13th century. Biggings is situated 6 miles southeast of Ve Skerries.
Ve Skerries
- Type: Rock
- Description: group of low skerries 3 miles north west of Papa Stour, on the west coast of Shetland
- Categories: archipelago and landform
- Location: Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Ve Skerries” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Ve Skerries”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ve Skerries”
- Norwegian: “Ve Skerries”
- Swedish: “Ve Skerries”
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