Flotta
Flotta is a small island in Orkney, Scotland, lying in Scapa Flow. The island is known for its large oil terminal and is linked by Orkney Ferries to Houton on the Orkney Mainland, Lyness on Hoy and Longhope on South Walls.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Flotta oil terminal and Flotta Airport.
Flotta oil terminal
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The Flotta oil terminal is a major crude oil reception, processing, storage and export facility on the island of Flotta, in the south of Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands. It receives and processes crude oil delivered by a subsea pipeline from the Piper, Claymore, Tartan and Golden Eagle platforms and associated fields.
Flotta Airport
Aerodrome
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Flotta Isle Airport is a small airport located on the Orkney isle of Flotta. The asphalt runway orientation is at 16/34, with an elevation of 70 feet, and is 2,490 feet in length.
Fara
Island
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Fara is a small island in Orkney, Scotland, lying in Scapa Flow between the islands of Flotta and Hoy. It has been uninhabited since the 1960s. The island’s name is used as a house name at Stromness Primary School, the other houses being Cava, Rysa, and Switha… Fara is situated 2 miles northwest of Flotta.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Whome and Point of Hackness.
Whome
Village
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Whome is the largest settlement on the Orkney island of Flotta, Scotland. The village is situated on the B9046, the main road across Flotta. Views from Whome look across Pan Hope, to the Flotta oil terminal across the bay.
Point of Hackness
Locality
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Point of Hackness is a locality, which is situated 2½ miles southwest of Flotta.
Hoxa Head
Locality
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Hoxa Head is a locality, which is situated 3 miles east of Flotta.
Flotta
- Type: Island
- Description: small island in Orkney, Scotland, UK, lying in Scapa Flow
- Category: landform
- Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Flotta” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Flotta”
- Cebuano: “Flotta, Orkney Islands”
- Cebuano: “Flotta”
- Chinese: “弗洛塔島”
- Danish: “Flotta”
- Dutch: “Flotta”
- French: “Flotta”
- French: “Île de Flotta”
- German: “Flotta”
- Greek: “Φλότα”
- Hebrew: “פלוטה”
- Italian: “Flotta”
- Japanese: “フロッタ島”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Flotta”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Flotta”
- Norwegian: “Flotta”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Flotta”
- Spanish: “Flotta”
- Swedish: “Flotta, Orkneyöarna”
- Swedish: “Flotta”
- Welsh: “Flotta”
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