Switha
Switha is an uninhabited island towards the south of Orkney, Scotland, approximately 41 hectares in area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Hackness Martello Tower and Battery and Cantick Head Lighthouse.
Hackness Martello Tower and Battery
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Hackness Martello Tower and Battery is a former British Army barracks and currently a museum located on the island of South Walls, in Orkney, Scotland. Hackness Martello Tower and Battery is situated 1½ miles west of Switha.
Cantick Head Lighthouse
Lighthouse
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The Cantick Head Lighthouse is an active 19th century lighthouse on the Scottish island of South Walls in the Orkney Islands. It is located at the end of Cantick Head, a long peninsula on the south-eastern coast of South Walls that overlooks the Pentland Firth and the Sound of Hoxa, which forms the southern entry to the natural harbour of Scapa Flow.
Flotta Airport
Aerodrome
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Flotta Isle Airport is a small airport located on the Orkney isle of Flotta. The asphalt runway orientation is at 16/34, with an elevation of 70 feet, and is 2,490 feet in length. Flotta Airport is situated 2½ miles northwest of Switha.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Point of Hackness and Whome.
Point of Hackness
Locality
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Point of Hackness is a locality, which is situated 2 miles west of Switha.
Whome
Village
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Whome is the largest settlement on the Orkney island of Flotta, Scotland. The village is situated on the B9046, the main road across Flotta. Views from Whome look across Pan Hope, to the Flotta oil terminal across the bay. Whome is situated 2 miles north of Switha.
Hoxa Head
Locality
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Hoxa Head is a locality, which is situated 2½ miles northeast of Switha.
Switha
- Type: Islet
- Description: a small uninhabited island towards the south of Orkney, Scotland
- Categories: island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
58.79951° or 58° 47′ 58″ northLongitude
-3.10284° or 3° 6′ 10″ westElevation
62 feet (19 metres)Open location code
9CCRQVXW+RVOpenStreetMap ID
way 4569210OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=isletGeoNames ID
2636370Wikidata ID
Q981284
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Switha” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Switha”
- Catalan: “Switha”
- Cebuano: “Switha”
- Chinese: “斯維塔島”
- Dutch: “Switha”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سويثا”
- French: “Switha”
- German: “Switha”
- Indonesian: “Switha”
- Italian: “Switha”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Switha”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Switha”
- Norwegian: “Switha”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Switha”
- Spanish: “Switha”
- Swedish: “Switha”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Cave of Banks and Searchlight (ruins).
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Switha”. Photo: Calum McRoberts, CC BY-SA 2.0.