Bruna Ness

Bruna Ness is a hill in Shetland Islands, Scotland and has an elevation of 194 feet. Bruna Ness is situated nearby to the village Hamnavoe, as well as near the hamlet Cauldhame.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Green Holm and Papa.

Green Holm

Islet

Green Holm, is a small uninhabited island 500 metres north of Burra Ness at the north end of the island of Burra and on the west side of the main shipping lane into Scalloway, in Shetland.

Papa is an uninhabited island in the Scalloway Islands, Shetland, Scotland. Papa lies north west of Burra and east of Oxna in the Shetland Islands. The population was 20 in 1871, 14 in 1881 and 23 in 1891.

Oxna

Island

Photo: Jon Beer, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Oxna is one of the Scalloway Islands, lying north west of Burra in Shetland, Scotland. Oxna has an area of 68 hectares. The island has been uninhabited since the First World War, but there is a house which is still used as a holiday home. Papa island lies a few hundred metres to the east of Oxna's north coast. Oxna is situated 2 miles west of Bruna Ness.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Scalloway and Burwick.

Scalloway

Photo: Hajotthu, CC BY 3.0.

Scalloway is a fishing village in the Shetland Islands. It was the capital of these islands until 1708 when Lerwick supplanted it. The population in 2011 was 900.

Burwick

Hamlet

Burwick is a small peninsula north of Scalloway in the Shetland Islands, Scotland. The Hill of Burwick rises to 107 metres, the Ness of Burwick is a headland that guards the bay of Bur Wick, and Burwick Holm is a small island with an elevation of about 10 metres, just off shore in the Scalloway Islands. Burwick is situated 2½ miles north of Bruna Ness.

Quarff

Village

Photo: Shimgray, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Quarff is a small village on Mainland in the Shetland Islands in Scotland. It is located on the main A970 road, 5 miles south of Shetland's only town, Lerwick. Quarff is situated 3 miles east of Bruna Ness.

Bruna Ness

Type: Hill with an elevation of 194 feet
Category: landform
Location: Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

60.11468° or 60° 6′ 53″ north

Longitude

-1.31405° or 1° 18′ 51″ west

Elevation

194 feet (59 metres)

Open location code

9CGW4M7P+V9

GeoNames ID

12614791

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Localities in the Area

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