Forewick Holm
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Robbie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Holm of Melby and Brei Holm.
Holm of Melby
Islet
Photo: Alan Bowring, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Holm of Melby is a small uninhabited island off Mainland, Shetland in Scotland. It lies in the Sound of Papa just offshore from the settlement of Melby in the district of Sandness.
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.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Biggings and Sandness.
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.
Huxter
Hamlet
Photo: Julian Paren, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Huxter is a hamlet, which is situated 1½ miles southwest of Forewick Holm.
Forewick Holm
- 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
60.3188° or 60° 19′ 8″ northLongitude
-1.66391° or 1° 39′ 50″ westOpen location code
9CGW889P+GCOpenStreetMap ID
way 172479890OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islet
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Turkish—“Forewick Holm” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Forewick Holm”
- Catalan: “Forvik”
- Cebuano: “Forewick Holm”
- Chinese: “福尔维克岛”
- Chinese: “福爾維克島”
- Dutch: “Forewick Holm”
- Finnish: “Forewick Holm”
- Finnish: “Forvik”
- French: “Forewick Holm”
- French: “Forvik”
- Galician: “Illiña de Forvik”
- German: “Forewick Holm”
- Italian: “Forvik”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Forewick Holm”
- Swedish: “Forewick Holm”
- Turkish: “Forvik”
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Highlights include Kirk Sand and North House.
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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 “Forewick Holm”. Photo: Robbie, CC BY-SA 2.0.