Stac Biorach
Stac Biorach is a sea stack, 73 metres tall, situated in the Sound of Soay between the islands of Hirta and Soay in the St Kilda archipelago of Scotland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Stac Dona and Soay.
Soay
Island
Photo: Olaf1950, Public domain.
Soay is an uninhabited islet in the St Kilda archipelago, Scotland. The name is from Old Norse Sauðey, meaning "island of sheep". The island is part of the St Kilda World Heritage Site and home to a primitive breed of sheep.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Glen Mor and St Kilda.
St Kilda
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St Kilda is a small archipelago in the Atlantic, 40 miles west of the Outer Hebrides or Western Isles of Scotland, of which it's administratively part. Hirta is the main island, and there is no island called St Kilda.
Stac Biorach
- Type: Islet
- Description: rock formation in Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK
- Categories: rock formation, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Western Isles, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.82819° or 57° 49′ 42″ northLongitude
-8.62214° or 8° 37′ 20″ westOpen location code
9C9HR9HH+74OpenStreetMap ID
way 788981365OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islet
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Stac Biorach” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Stac Biorach”
- Hausa: “Stac Biorach”
- Irish: “Stac Biorach”
- Polish: “Stac Biorach”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Stac Biorach”
- Swedish: “Stac Biorach”
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Highlights include The Cambir and Soay.
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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 “Stac Biorach”. Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.