Hoe Skerry

Hoe Skerry is an islet in Shetland Islands, Scotland. Hoe Skerry is situated nearby to the locality Sandy Voe, as well as near the village Hamnavoe.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Linga and Hildasay.

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.

Hildasay

Island

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Hildasay, also known as Hildisay, is an uninhabited island off the west coast of the Shetland Mainland.

Papa

Islet

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Papa is an uninhabited island in the Scalloway Islands, Shetland, Scotland. Papa lies north west of Burra and east of Oxna in the Shetland Islands. The population was 20 in 1871, 14 in 1881 and 23 in 1891.

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 2½ miles northeast of Hoe Skerry.

Scalloway

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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.

Quarff

Village

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Quarff is a small village on Mainland in the Shetland Islands in Scotland. It is located on the main A970 road, 5 miles south of Shetland's only town, Lerwick. Quarff is situated 5 miles southeast of Hoe Skerry.

Hoe Skerry

Type: Islet
Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
Location: Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

60.13461° or 60° 8′ 5″ north

Longitude

-1.3567° or 1° 21′ 24″ west

Open location code

9CGW4JMV+R8

OpenStreetMap ID

way 230464912

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=coastline

OpenStreetMap feature

place=islet

GeoNames ID

2646799

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