North Rona
North Rona is the most remote island in Britain to have been inhabited long-term. It can be considered the outermost of the Outer Hebrides, but it's as far away from the rest of that archipelago as it is from mainland Scotland - 44 miles / 71 km.
- Island
- …lies at an elevation of 3 feet (1 metre)
- Description: Scottish island in the North Atlantic
- Also known as“Rona”“Rònaigh”
Places of Interest
Highlights include North Rona Lighthouse.
North Rona
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Latitude
59.1251° or 59° 7′ 31″ north
Longitude
-5.8264° or 5° 49′ 35″ west
Open location code
9CFP45GF+3C
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastline
OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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In Other Languages
From Breton to Western Frisian—“North Rona” goes by many names.
- Breton: “Rònaigh an Daimh”
- Cebuano: “Rona, Outer Hebrides”
- Cebuano: “Rona”
- Chinese: “北羅納島”
- Dutch: “North Rona”
- Egyptian Arabic: “رونا”
- Esperanto: “Norda Rono”
- Faroese: “North Rona”
- French: “North Rona”
- German: “North Rona”
- Hebrew: “צפון רונה”
- Hebrew: “רונה”
- Irish: “Rónaigh, Atlantach Thuaidh”
- Irish: “Rónaigh”
- Italian: “North Rona”
- Japanese: “ノース・ロナ島”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “North Rona”
- Russian: “Рона”
- Russian: “Северная Рона”
- Swedish: “Rona, Yttre Hebriderna”
- Swedish: “Rona”
- Vietnamese: “North Rona”
- Western Frisian: “Noard Rona”
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