North Havra
North Havra is a small island off south west Shetland. It is 30 metres at its highest point. Situated 1/3 mile from the ness-end of South Whiteness, the island possess a lighthouse and a couple of small sheep pens, as well as a couple dozen sheep and different bird species.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hildasay and Hoy.
Hildasay
Island
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Hildasay, also known as Hildisay, is an uninhabited island off the west coast of the Shetland Mainland. Hildasay is situated 1½ miles southwest of North Havra.
Hoy
Islet
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hoy is a small island in Weisdale Voe, an arm of the sea in the Shetland islands, Scotland. Nearby are the smaller islets of Hoggs of Hoy and Junk. The Sound of Hoy lies between Hoy and Strom Ness peninsula on the Shetland Mainland.
Linga
Islet
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Linga is a small island off Hildasay in the Shetland Islands. It is one of the Scalloway Islands. Haswell-Smith compares Hildasay and the adjacent islands to a yeti's footprint, with Linga as the big toe. Linga is situated 2 miles south of North Havra.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Burwick and Scalloway.
Burwick
Hamlet
Burwick is a small peninsula north of Scalloway in the Shetland Islands, Scotland. The Hill of Burwick rises to 107 metres, the Ness of Burwick is a headland that guards the bay of Bur Wick, and Burwick Holm is a small island with an elevation of about 10 metres, just off shore in the Scalloway Islands. Burwick is situated 2 miles southeast of North Havra.
Scalloway
Scalloway is a fishing village in the Shetland Islands. It was the capital of these islands until 1708 when Lerwick supplanted it. The population in 2011 was 900.
Haggersta
Village
Photo: Mike Pennington, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Haggersta is a village, which is situated 4 miles north of North Havra.
North Havra
- Type: Islet
- Description: island in Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK
- Categories: island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
60.16484° or 60° 9′ 53″ northLongitude
-1.33696° or 1° 20′ 13″ westElevation
3 feet (1 metre)Open location code
9CGW5M77+W6OpenStreetMap ID
way 41105628OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=isletGeoNames ID
2641344Wikidata ID
Q3344128
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“North Havra” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “North Havra Island”
- Cebuano: “North Havra”
- French: “North Havra”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “North Havra”
- Scottish Gaelic: “North Havra”
- Swedish: “North Havra”
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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 “North Havra”. Photo: juvlai, CC BY-SA 2.0.