Eday
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".| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Eday Airport and Faray.
Eday Airport
Aerodrome
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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".
Faray
Island
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Faray is a small island in Orkney, Scotland, lying between Eday and Westray. Previously inhabited, the low-lying island is now a successful grey seal breeding colony.
Stone of Setter
Archaeological site
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The Stone of Setter is a Neolithic standing stone located on the island of Eday, in Orkney, Scotland. It dates to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age, around the 2nd millennium BC.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Backaland.
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.
Eday
- Type: Island
- Description: island of the Orkney islands, Scotland, UK
- Categories: civil parish and landform
- Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Eday” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ٳيداي”
- Basque: “Eday”
- Bulgarian: “Едай”
- Cebuano: “Eday”
- Chinese: “伊迪島”
- Czech: “Eday”
- Czech: “ostrov v Orknejském souostroví”
- Danish: “Eday”
- Dutch: “Eday”
- French: “Eday”
- German: “Eday”
- Greek: “Έιντι”
- Hebrew: “אידיי”
- Irish: “Iadaigh”
- Italian: “Eday”
- Japanese: “エディ島”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Eday”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Eday”
- Norwegian: “Eday”
- Polish: “Eday”
- Russian: “Идей”
- Russian: “Эдей”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Iadaigh”
- Spanish: “Eday”
- Swedish: “Eday”
- Welsh: “Eday”
- Western Panjabi: “اڈے”
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