South Walls
South Walls, often referred to as Walls, is an island in Orkney, Scotland. It is connected to the island of Hoy, and to the district of North Walls, by a causeway known as The Ayre.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Hackness Martello Tower and Battery and Longhope Lifeboat Museum.
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 northeast of South Walls.
Longhope Lifeboat Museum
Museum
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Longhope Lifeboat Museum is a museum at Brims on the island of Hoy in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. The museum's main exhibit is the former lifeboat Thomas McCunn, the lifeboat that served the islands of Hoy and South Walls between 1933 and 1962. Longhope Lifeboat Museum is situated 2 miles southwest of South Walls.
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. Cantick Head Lighthouse is situated 2 miles east of South Walls.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Longhope and Point of Hackness.
Longhope
Village
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Longhope is a coastal settlement on the island of South Walls, in Orkney, Scotland. South Walls is linked to Hoy by causeway; Longhope is the largest settlement on the two islands. The settlement is situated on the B9047, the main road on Hoy and South Walls.
Brims
Locality
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Brims is a village at the southern point of the island of Hoy, in Orkney, Scotland. The settlement is within the parish of Walls and Flotta. The RNLI lifeboat Thomas McCunn is on display at the Longhope Lifeboat Museum in Brims, which was the Longhope Lifeboat Station until 1999. Brims is situated 2 miles southwest of South Walls.
South Walls
- Type: Peninsula
- Description: island of the Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK
- Categories: island and landform
- Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“South Walls” goes by many names.
- Basque: “South Walls”
- Cebuano: “South Walls”
- Chinese: “南沃尔斯岛”
- Chinese: “南沃爾斯島”
- Danish: “South Walls”
- Dutch: “South Walls”
- French: “South Walls”
- Greek: “Σάουθ Γουόλς”
- Italian: “South Walls”
- Japanese: “サウス・ウォールズ島”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “South Walls”
- Old Norse: “Vágaland”
- Old Norse: “Vágar”
- Scottish Gaelic: “South Walls”
- Swedish: “South Walls”
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