Rousay
Rousay is one of the Orkney Islands, separated by a mile-wide strait from Orkney Mainland. Its name is Norse, Hrólfsey meaning Rolf's Island, and it's small and hilly, only 5 by 3 miles, with a population of 219 in 2011.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Knowe of Yarso chambered cairn and Midhowe Chambered Cairn.
Knowe of Yarso chambered cairn
Archaeological site
Photo: MichaelMaggs, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Knowe of Yarso chambered cairn is a Neolithic burial monument located on the island of Rousay in Orkney, Scotland. The site was excavated in the 1930s, and uncovered human and animal bones as well as pottery sherds, flint and bone tools, and arrowheads.
Midhowe Chambered Cairn
Archaeological site
Photo: MichaelMaggs, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Midhowe Chambered Cairn is a large Neolithic chambered cairn located on the south shore of the island of Rousay, Orkney, Scotland. The name "Midhowe" comes from the Iron Age broch known as Midhowe Broch, that lies just west of the tomb.
Midhowe Broch
Archaeological site
Photo: MichaelMaggs, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Midhowe Broch is an Iron Age broch located on the west coast of the island of Rousay in the Orkney Islands, in Scotland.
Rousay
- Type: Island
- Description: island of the Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK
- Category: landform
- Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
59.1632° or 59° 9′ 47″ northLongitude
-3.0364° or 3° 2′ 11″ westPopulation
216Elevation
512 feet (156 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB ROUOpen location code
9CFR5X77+7COpenStreetMap ID
way 4569534GeoNames ID
2639058Wikidata ID
Q1551897
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Rousay” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Rousay”
- Asturian: “Rousay”
- Basque: “Rousay”
- Bulgarian: “Роусай”
- Cebuano: “Rousay”
- Chinese: “劳赛岛”
- Chinese: “勞賽島”
- Czech: “ostrov v Orknejském souostroví”
- Czech: “Rousay”
- Danish: “Rousay”
- Dutch: “Rousay”
- French: “Rousay”
- German: “Rousay”
- Greek: “Ράουσι”
- Hebrew: “רוסי”
- Italian: “Rousay”
- Japanese: “ラウジー島”
- Japanese: “ラウゼー島”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rousay”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rousay”
- Norwegian: “Rousay”
- Russian: “Раузи”
- Scots: “Rousay”
- Scots: “Rousee”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Romhsaigh”
- Spanish: “Rousay”
- Swedish: “Rousay”
- Welsh: “Rousay”
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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 “Rousay”. Photo: Jonesl84, CC BY-SA 3.0.