Soay
Soay is an uninhabited islet in the St Kilda archipelago, Scotland. The name is from Old Norse Sauðey, meaning "island of sheep". The island is part of the St Kilda World Heritage Site and home to a primitive breed of sheep.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Olaf1950, Public domain.
- Type: Island
- Description: uninhabited islet in the St Kilda archipelago, Scotland
- Also known as: “Soa Island”, “Soay, St Kilda”, and “Sòdhaigh”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cnoc Glas and Am Plastair.
Stac Biorach
Islet
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stac Biorach is a sea stack, 73 metres tall, situated in the Sound of Soay between the islands of Hirta and Soay in the St Kilda archipelago of Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Glen Mor and St Kilda.
St Kilda
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St Kilda is a small archipelago in the Atlantic, 40 miles west of the Outer Hebrides or Western Isles of Scotland, of which it's administratively part. Hirta is the main island, and there is no island called St Kilda.
Soay
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Western Isles, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.82869° or 57° 49′ 43″ northLongitude
-8.63728° or 8° 38′ 14″ westElevation
1,142 feet (348 metres)Open location code
9C9HR9H7+F3OpenStreetMap ID
way 788981363OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
2637559Wikidata ID
Q1574956
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Western Frisian—“Soay” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Soay (St Kilda)”
- Basque: “Soay”
- Cebuano: “Soay”
- Chinese: “索厄岛”
- Chinese: “索厄島”
- Dutch: “Soaigh”
- Dutch: “Soay”
- Faroese: “Soay”
- French: “Soay”
- German: “Soay”
- Icelandic: “Sauðey”
- Icelandic: “Soay, St Kilda”
- Icelandic: “Soay”
- Irish: “Soaigh”
- Italian: “Soay”
- Polish: “Soay”
- Scots: “Soay, St Kilda”
- Scots: “Soay”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Soaigh”
- Swedish: “Soay, St Kilda”
- Swedish: “Soay”
- Welsh: “Soaigh”
- Western Frisian: “Soay”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Soay and Stac Dona.
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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 “Soay”. Photo: Olaf1950, Public domain.