Papa Stour Island
Papa Stour is one of the Shetland Islands in Scotland, with a population of fifteen people, some of whom immigrated after an appeal for residents in the 1970s.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island of the Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Papa Stour”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Papa Stour Airport and Forewick Holm.
Papa Stour Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Rude Health, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Papa Stour Airstrip is a small airstrip in the village of Biggings on the island of Papa Stour. Shetland, Scotland.
Forewick Holm
Islet
Photo: Robbie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Forewick Holm is a 1-hectare island in the Sound of Papa, between Papa Stour and the Mainland of Shetland. It lies adjacent to a skerry called Scarf's Head, and the two are connected at low tide.
Brei Holm
Islet
Brei Holm is a tiny tidal islet in the western Shetland Islands. It is due east of Papa Stour, to which it is connected at low tide, just outside Housa Voe.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Biggings and Huxter.
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.
Sandness
Hamlet
Photo: Cwcoutts, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sandness is a headland and district in the west of Shetland Mainland, Scotland. Sandness was a civil parish, which also included the island of Papa Stour a mile northwest across Papa Sound.
Papa Stour Island
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
60.33064° or 60° 19′ 50″ northLongitude
-1.69974° or 1° 41′ 59″ westPopulation
15Elevation
3 feet (1 metre)IATA airport code
PSVUnited Nations Location Code
GB PSVOpen location code
9CGW88J2+74OpenStreetMap ID
way 173383816OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Western Panjabi—“Papa Stour Island” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Papa Stour”
- Catalan: “Papa Stour”
- Cebuano: “Papa Stour Island”
- Cebuano: “Papa Stour”
- Chinese: “帕帕斯朵尔”
- Chinese: “帕帕斯朵爾”
- Danish: “Papa Stour”
- Dutch: “Papa Stour”
- Egyptian Arabic: “پاپا ستور”
- Faroese: “Papa Stour”
- French: “Papa Stour”
- German: “Papa Stour”
- Greek: “Παπά Στάουερ”
- Hebrew: “פפא סטור”
- Hebrew: “פפה סטור”
- Italian: “Papa Stour”
- Japanese: “パパ・ストア島”
- Lithuanian: “Papa Stauras”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Papa Stour”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Papa Stour”
- Norwegian: “Papa Stour”
- Russian: “Папа-Стаур”
- Russian: “Папа-Стур”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Papa Stour”
- Spanish: “Papa Stour”
- Swedish: “Papa Stour Island”
- Swedish: “Papa Stour”
- Ukrainian: “Папа-Стур”
- Welsh: “Papa Stour”
- Western Panjabi: “پاپا سٹور”
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