Foula
Foula is one of the Shetland Islands, some 20 miles out into the Atlantic west of Shetland Mainland. In 2011 it had a population of 30.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island of the Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Foula Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Foula Airport and Da Sneug.
Foula Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Lis Burke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Foula Airfield is an airfield located on the remote island of Foula, part of the Shetland Islands in the north of Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ham and South Ness.
Foula
- Category: landform
- Location: Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Foula from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Foula” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Foula”
- Catalan: “Foula”
- Cebuano: “Foula”
- Chinese: “富拉岛”
- Chinese: “富拉島”
- Czech: “Foula”
- Danish: “Foula”
- Dutch: “Foula”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فولا”
- Estonian: “Foula”
- Faroese: “Foula”
- French: “Foula”
- French: “Île de Foula”
- German: “Foula”
- Greek: “Φούλα”
- Hebrew: “פאולה”
- Hebrew: “פולה (אי)”
- Hebrew: “פולה”
- Hungarian: “Foula”
- Irish: “Foula”
- Irish: “Fughlaigh”
- Italian: “Foula”
- Japanese: “フーラ島”
- Lithuanian: “Fula”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Foula”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Foula”
- Norwegian: “Foula”
- Polish: “Foula”
- Portuguese: “Foula”
- Russian: “Фула”
- Scots: “Foula”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Foula”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Fughlaigh”
- Slovak: “Foula”
- Slovenian: “Foula”
- Spanish: “Foula”
- Swedish: “Foula”
- Turkish: “Foula”
- Ukrainian: “Фула (острів)”
- Ukrainian: “Фула”
- Welsh: “Foula”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Foula”. Photo: Ronnie Robertson, CC BY-SA 2.0.