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St Helen’s

St Helen's is one of the fifty or so uninhabited islands in the archipelago of the and has an approximate area of 0.1885 square kilometres.
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Photo: Cyr, CC BY-SA 2.0 uk.
  • Type: Island
  • Description: island in Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “St Helen’s, Isles of Scilly”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Round Island Light and Teän.

Lighthouse
Photo: David Lally, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Round Island Lighthouse, in the was designed by William Tregarthen Douglass for Trinity House and completed in 1887. At the time of building it was one of three lights in the Isles of Scilly, the others being the and .

Island
Photo: Chris Walpole, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is an uninhabited island to the north of the archipelago between , 1.5 kilometres to the west, and , 300 metres to the east.

Islet
Photo: Richard Croft, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Helen's is one of the fifty or so uninhabited islands in the archipelago of the and has an approximate area of 0.1885 square kilometres.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Piper’s Hole and Old Grimsby.

Locality
Photo: Simon Leatherdale, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Piper's Hole is a sea cave located on , an island of the . The name Piper's Hole can also refer to another, more minor, sea cave in the Isles of Scilly, located on , .

Village
Photo: David Lally, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a coastal settlement on the island of in the , . It is located on the east side of the island and there is a quay.

Village
Photo: Darren Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is the westernmost settlement on the island of in the , . One of the island's two quays is located here, sometimes referred to as the Hotel Quay, as the only hotel on the island, Karma St Martin's, is located by it.

St Helen’s

Latitude
49.97252° or 49° 58′ 21″ north
Longitude
-6.32448° or 6° 19′ 28″ west
Elevation
108 feet (33 metres)
Open location code
8CXMXMFG+26
Open­Street­Map ID
way 237898560
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Geo­Names ID
11549521
Wiki­data ID
Q1352488
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Scottish Gaelic—“St Helen’s” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جزيرة سانت هيلينز (جزر سيلي)”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة سانت هيلينز”
  • Armenian: “Սուրբ Հեղինե (Սիլլի կղզիներ)”
  • Armenian: “Սուրբ Հեղինե”
  • Cornish: “Ynys Elidius”
  • Dutch: “St. Helen’s”
  • French: “St Helen’s”
  • German: “St. Helen’s”
  • Italian: “St Helen’s”
  • Japanese: “セントヘレンズ (シリー諸島)”
  • Polish: “St Helen’s”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Ynys Elidius”

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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 “St Helen’s”. Photo: Cyr, CC BY-SA 2.0 uk.