Eynhallow Sound
Eynhallow Sound is a seaway lying between Mainland Orkney and the island of Rousay in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. The tidal indraught is "scarcely felt beyond a line joining Costa Head and the Reef of Quendale".| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Broch of Gurness and Sands of Evie.
Broch of Gurness
Archaeological site
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The Broch of Gurness is an Iron Age broch village on the northeast coast of Mainland Orkney in Scotland overlooking Eynhallow Sound, about 15 miles north-west of Kirkwall.
Sands of Evie
Beach
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The Sands of Evie is a sandy beach landform near the village of Evie on Mainland Orkney, Scotland, protected by the Point of Hellia headland. This beach forms the southern boundary of Aikerness Bay, an element of Eynhallow Sound.
Eynhallow
Island
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Eynhallow is a small, presently uninhabited island in Eynhallow Sound, between Rousay and the Mainland of Orkney, off the north coast of mainland Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Evie and Tingwall.
Evie
Village
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Evie is a parish and village on Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. The parish is located in the north-west of the Mainland, between Birsay and Rendall, forming the coastline opposite the isle of Rousay.
Tingwall
Village
Tingwall is a farm and ferry terminal that lies on the north-east coast of Orkney's West Mainland on the Gairsay Sound in the parish of Evie and Rendall.
Rendall
Village
Photo: John Comloquoy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rendall is a parish on Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. It is in the north west of the island and lies east of the parishes of Birsay and Evie and north east of Harray. The island of Gairsay is also in the parish.
Eynhallow Sound
- Type: Strait
- Description: sound in Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK
- Categories: sound and body of water
- Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
59.12645° or 59° 7′ 35″ northLongitude
-3.09184° or 3° 5′ 31″ westOpen location code
9CFR4WG5+H7OpenStreetMap ID
way 931964632OpenStreetMap feature
natural=straitGeoNames ID
2649779Wikidata ID
Q5422949
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Eynhallow Sound” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Eynhallow Sound”
- Cebuano: “Eynhallow Sound”
- Chinese: “艾恩哈洛海峡”
- Swedish: “Eynhallow Sound”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Swarta Fiold and Frotoft.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Evie Graveyard and Knowe Stenso,broch N of Dyke.
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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 “Eynhallow Sound”. Photo: s allison, CC BY-SA 2.0.