Hoy
Hoy is the second largest of the Orkney Islands, 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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.
Dwarfie Stane
The Dwarfie Stane 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 Rackwick on Hoy, an island in Orkney, Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lyness.
Lyness
Village
Photo: Chris Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lyness is a village on the east coast of the island of Hoy, Orkney, Scotland. The village is within the parish of Walls and Flotta, and is situated at the junction of the B9047 and B9048.
Hoy
- Category: landform
- Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.852° or 58° 51′ 7″ northLongitude
-3.3031° or 3° 18′ 11″ westPopulation
419Elevation
1,152 feet (351 metres)IATA airport code
HOYUnited Nations Location Code
GB HYOOpen location code
9CCRVM2W+QQOpenStreetMap ID
way 4569205
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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”
- 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”
- Welsh: “Hoy”
- Western Panjabi: “ہوۓ”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Hoy”. Photo: Postdlf, CC BY-SA 3.0.