Lady’s Holm
Lady's Holm is an island off southern Mainland in the Shetland Islands. It is not to be confused with the Maiden Stack, which is also known as "Frau Stack" It is to the west of Scat Ness and the village of Scatness, a headland on Mainland, and there is also another islet nearby, Little Holm. Sumburgh Airport is about a mile northeast.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Islet
- Description: island in Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Lady Holm”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Little Holm and Old Scatness.
Little Holm
Islet
Photo: Mike Pennington, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Little Holm is a small island to the west of South Mainland in Shetland. It is near Scatness and Lady's Holm. A trawler was wrecked there in 1916.
Old Scatness
Archaeological site
Photo: Bubobubo2, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Old Scatness is an archeological site on Scat Ness, near the village of Scatness, in the parish of Dunrossness in the south end of Mainland, Shetland, Scotland, near Sumburgh Airport.
Ness of Burgi fort
Fort
Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Ness of Burgi fort is an iron-age promontory fort in the Old Scatness archaeological site on the Ness of Burgi, a narrow finger of land reaching south from the Scat Ness in the far south of the island of Mainland, Shetland in Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Scatness and Toab.
Scatness
Village
Photo: Douglas Law, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Scatness is a settlement on the headland of Scat Ness at the southern tip of Mainland, Shetland, Scotland, across the West Voe of Sumburgh from Sumburgh Head and close to Sumburgh Airport, the Shetland Islands' main airport.
Toab
Village
Photo: Robbie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Toab is the southernmost village on Mainland, Shetland, Scotland. It is part of Virkie and overlooks Sumburgh Airport. Toab is within the parish of Dunrossness. The name Toab may come from the old Norse hópr or hóp meaning a small landlocked bay or lagoon. Toab is situated 1½ miles northeast of Lady’s Holm.
Sumburgh
Photo: Hajotthu, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sumburgh is a village near the southern tip of Mainland in the Shetland Islands, with a population in 2011 of about 100. Its main attraction is Jarlshof, continuously inhabited for 4000 years.
Lady’s Holm
- Categories: island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
59.87034° or 59° 52′ 13″ northLongitude
-1.33166° or 1° 19′ 54″ westElevation
39 feet (12 metres)Open location code
9CFWVMC9+48OpenStreetMap ID
way 88297944OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=isletGeoNames ID
2645057Wikidata ID
Q3215981
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Lady’s Holm” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Lady’s Holm”
- Dutch: “Lady’s Holm”
- French: “Lady’s Holm”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lady’s Holm”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Lady’s Holm”
- Swedish: “Lady’s Holm”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sumburgh Airport and Jarlshof.
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