Little Skerry
Little Skerry is a locality in Orkney Islands, Scotland. Little Skerry is situated nearby to the locality Skerry of Yinstay, as well as near Scare Gun.Places of Interest
Highlights include Loch of Tankerness.
Loch of Tankerness
Photo: Adam Ward, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Loch of Tankerness is a large, lowland, freshwater loch on the Orkney mainland in Scotland. The loch is roughly triangular in shape and is shallow with a flat bottom that gradually deepens from west to east. It lies approximately 4 mi southeast of Kirkwall.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rerwick Head and Head of Holland.
Head of Holland
Locality
Photo: Adam Ward, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Head of Holland is a locality, which is situated 2 miles west of Little Skerry.
Tankerness
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tankerness is a district in the St Andrews parish in Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. Essentially a peninsula, it is about 13 kilometres south-east of Kirkwall and 1 kilometre east of Kirkwall Airport. Tankerness is situated 2½ miles south of Little Skerry.
Little Skerry
- Type: Locality
- Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
58.98589° or 58° 59′ 9″ northLongitude
-2.84023° or 2° 50′ 25″ westOpen location code
9CCVX5P5+9WOpenStreetMap ID
node 918035012OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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