Iona
Iona is an island one mile west of Mull in the Scottish Inner Hebrides. It's only 3½ miles long by 1½ miles across, with a population of 210 in 2019. Its main settlement Baile Mor is just a straggle of cottages.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island off the west coast of Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Isle of Iona”
Photo: Oliver-Bonjoch, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: PaulT, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Oran’s Chapel and Iona Church, Iona.
St Oran’s Chapel
Church
Photo: Keith Laverack, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Oran's Chapel is a medieval chapel located on the island of Iona in the Inner Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland. Built in the 12th century, the chapel was dedicated to St Oran.
Bishop’s House
Guest house
Photo: RichTea, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bishop's House is a retreat house for the Scottish Episcopal Church, located on the island of Iona, off the west coast of Scotland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fionnphort and Kintra.
Fionnphort
Photo: Zenit, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fionnphort is a small fishing port at the far west of the Ross of Mull, where the ferry crosses to Iona. The population is about 80 and the village has limited accommodation or other amenities.
Kintra
Hamlet
Photo: Dave Fergusson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kintra, meaning "head of the beach" in Scottish Gaelic, is a settlement on the North-Western coast of the Ross of Mull, Scotland. The settlement is within the parish of Kilfinichen and Kilvickeon.
Iona
- Category: landform
- Location: Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.3288° or 56° 19′ 44″ northLongitude
-6.4131° or 6° 24′ 47″ westPopulation
125Elevation
36 feet (11 metres)Open location code
9C8M8HHP+GPOpenStreetMap ID
way 4009707
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Iona” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إيونا”
- Armenian: “Իոնա”
- Asturian: “Iona”
- Azerbaijani: “Ayona”
- Azerbaijani: “İona”
- Basque: “Iona”
- Belarusian: “Аёна”
- Bengali: “আয়োনা”
- Breton: “Ì Chaluim Chille”
- Catalan: “Iona”
- Cebuano: “Iona”
- Cebuano: “Isle of Iona”
- Central Kurdish: “ئایۆنا”
- Chinese: “爱奥那岛”
- Chinese: “艾奥纳岛”
- Czech: “Iona”
- Danish: “Iona”
- Dutch: “Iona”
- Estonian: “Iona”
- Finnish: “Iona”
- French: “Île d’Iona”
- French: “Iona”
- Galician: “Iona”
- German: “Iona”
- German: “Isle of Iona”
- Greek: “Αϊόνα”
- Greek: “Άιονα”
- Hebrew: “איונה”
- Hungarian: “Iona”
- Irish: “Í Chaluim Chille”
- Irish: “Í Cholm Cille”
- Italian: “Iona”
- Japanese: “アイオナ島”
- Kazakh: “Айона”
- Korean: “아이오나섬”
- Latin: “Iona”
- Low German: “Iona”
- Nepali: “इयोना”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Iona”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Iona”
- Norwegian: “Iona”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Iona”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ii”
- Persian: “آئونا”
- Polish: “Iona”
- Portuguese: “Iona”
- Romanian: “Iona (insulă)”
- Russian: “Айона”
- Russian: “Иона”
- Scots: “Iona”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ì Chaluim Chille”
- Serbian: “Јона (Шкотска)”
- Serbian: “Јона”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Iona”
- Slovenian: “Iona”
- Slovenian: “Isle of Iona”
- Spanish: “Iona”
- Swahili: “Kisiwa cha Iona”
- Swedish: “Iona”
- Swedish: “Isle of Iona”
- Tagalog: “Iona”
- Tamil: “ஐயோனா”
- Ukrainian: “Айона”
- Ukrainian: “І Халум Хілле”
- Ukrainian: “Йона”
- Urdu: “آئونا”
- Vietnamese: “Iona”
- Welsh: “Iona”
- Western Panjabi: “آئیاونا”
- Wu Chinese: “爱奥那岛”
- Wu Chinese: “艾奥纳岛”
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