Hoy

Hoy is the second largest of the , extending 14 miles north-south by 6 miles east-west, but with a population of only 419 in 2011. The name means "high" and it's hilly and sparsely populated; its hills draw the clouds, drizzle and midges, and Hoy feels much more like the bleak Hebrides than the green, pastoral Orkneys.
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: island in the Orkney Islands group, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Hoy, Orkney”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dwarfie Stane.

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The is a megalithic chambered tomb carved out of a titanic block of Devonian Old Red Sandstone located in a steep-sided glaciated valley between the settlements of Quoys and on Hoy, an island in , Scotland.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lyness.

Village
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is a village on the east coast of the island of Hoy, , Scotland. The village is within the parish of Walls and Flotta, and is situated at the junction of the B9047 and B9048.

Hoy

Latitude
58.852° or 58° 51′ 7″ north
Longitude
-3.3031° or 3° 18′ 11″ west
Population
419
Elevation
1,152 feet (351 metres)
IATA airport code
HOY
United Nations Location Code
GB HYO
Open location code
9CCRVM2W+QQ
Open­Street­Map ID
way 4569205
Geo­Names ID
2646475
Wiki­data ID
Q1139771
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Hoy” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جزيرة هوي”
  • Basque: “Hoy uhartea”
  • Breton: “Enez Hoy”
  • Cebuano: “Hoy”
  • Chinese: “霍伊岛”
  • Chinese: “霍伊島”
  • Czech: “Hoy”
  • Danish: “Hoy”
  • Dutch: “Hoy”
  • Faroese: “Hoy”
  • Finnish: “Hoy”
  • French: “Hoy”
  • German: “Hoy”
  • Greek: “Χόι”
  • Hebrew: “הוי”
  • Icelandic: “Háey”
  • Irish: “Hòigh”
  • Italian: “Hoy Island”
  • Italian: “Hoy”
  • Japanese: “ホイ島”
  • Latin: “Hoïa insula”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hoy”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hoy”
  • Norwegian: “Hoy”
  • Polish: “Hoy”
  • Russian: “Хой”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Hòigh”
  • Serbian: “Хој”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hoy”
  • Spanish: “Hoy”
  • Swedish: “Hoy”
  • Ukrainian: “Хой”
  • Welsh: “Hoy”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہوۓ”

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