Skaw
Skaw is a settlement in the Scottish archipelago of Shetland, located on the island of Unst. It is located north of Haroldswick on a peninsula in the northeast corner of the island, and is the most northerly settlement in the United Kingdom.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Mike Pennington, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: settlement on the Shetland island of Unst
- Also known as: “Skaw, Unst”
Places of Interest
Highlights include RRH Saxa Vord and Haroldswick Methodist Church.
RRH Saxa Vord
Peak
Photo: Mike Pennington, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Remote Radar Head Saxa Vord or RRH Saxa Vord, is a Royal Air Force radar station located on the island of Unst, the most northern of the Shetland Islands in Scotland. RRH Saxa Vord is situated 1½ miles west of Skaw.
Haroldswick Methodist Church
Church
Photo: Mike Pennington, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Haroldswick Methodist Church is situated 2 miles southwest of Skaw.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Haroldswick and Burrafirth.
Haroldswick
Hamlet
Photo: Mike Pennington, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Haroldswick or Harold's Wick, is on Unst, Shetland Islands, Scotland, and is one of the most northerly settlements in the British Isles. Haroldswick is situated 3 miles southwest of Skaw.
Burrafirth
Hamlet
Photo: Mike Pennington, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Burrafirth links is a strip of land with a few houses on the island of Unst, Shetland, Scotland. It separates the fjord Burra Firth from the Loch of Cliff. Burrafirth is situated 3½ miles southwest of Skaw.
Hamar
Locality
Photo: Helspence, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hamar is a locality, which is situated 4½ miles south of Skaw.
Skaw
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
60.82506° or 60° 49′ 30″ northLongitude
-0.79113° or 0° 47′ 28″ westElevation
3 feet (1 metre)Open location code
9CGXR6G5+2GOpenStreetMap ID
node 1838250029OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Scots—“Skaw” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Skaw (Unst)”
- Basque: “Skaw”
- Catalan: “Skaw”
- Chinese: “斯考島”
- Dutch: “Skaw”
- French: “Skaw”
- German: “Skaw (Unst)”
- German: “Skaw”
- Italian: “Skaw”
- Polish: “Skaw”
- Scots: “Skaw”
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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 “Skaw”. Photo: Mike Pennington, CC BY-SA 2.0.