Eday Sound
Eday Sound is a strait in Orkney Islands, Scotland. Eday Sound is situated nearby to the locality Spur Ness, as well as near The New Kirkyard.Places of Interest
Highlights include Eday and Eday Airport.
Eday
Photo: Beep boop beep, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Eday is one of the Orkney Islands of Scotland. It's about 15 miles north of the Orkney Mainland, 8 miles long by a mile wide but pinched in the middle: in Old Norse Eiðøy means "isthmus island".
Eday Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Lis Burke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Eday London Airport is located on Eday in Orkney, Scotland. As it is close to the Bay of London it is known locally as just London Airport. The Bay of London may have been so called because of puffins breeding there: Old Norse lundi = "puffin", Old Norse á Lundunum = "at the puffins".
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Backaland and Whitehall.
Backaland
Hamlet
Photo: Des Colhoun, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Backaland is a settlement on the island of Eday in Orkney, Scotland. The settlement is also within the parish of Eday, and it is located to the south west of the island. Backaland is situated at the southern end of the B9063.
Whitehall
Village
Photo: Lis Burke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whitehall is the village on the island of Stronsay, in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. It is a small village with about 50 houses. It also has a shop, a café and heritage centre, known as the Fish Mart; the Stronsay Hotel, with attached pub; a post office, a fisherman's pier and a ferry pier.
Kettletoft
Village
Photo: John Comloquoy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kettletoft is a settlement on the island of Sanday in Orkney, Scotland. The B9068 road runs from Kettletoft to Scar and the B9069 from Kettletoft to Northwall.
Eday Sound
- Type: Strait
- Category: body of water
- Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
59.18047° or 59° 10′ 50″ northLongitude
-2.71624° or 2° 42′ 59″ westOpen location code
9CFV57JM+5GOpenStreetMap ID
way 931965224OpenStreetMap feature
natural=straitGeoNames ID
2650258
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