Sanday
Sanday is one of the Orkney Islands, northeast of Orkney Mainland. It's a thin low-lying strap, about 12 miles long but seldom reaching a mile wide, flanked by sandy beaches.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in the north of the Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Sanda”, “Sanday Island”, and “Sanday, Orkney”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sanday Airport and Quoyness chambered cairn.
Sanday Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Rob Burke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sanday Airport is located 20 NM north northeast of Kirkwall Airport on Sanday, Orkney Islands, Scotland. Sanday Aerodrome has a CAA Ordinary Licence that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction as authorised by the licensee.
Quoyness chambered cairn
Archaeological site
Photo: Callum Black, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Quoyness chambered cairn is a Neolithic burial monument located on the island of Sanday in Orkney, Scotland. Similar to Maeshowe in design, the tomb was probably built around 3000 BC.
Boloquoy Mill, Sanday
Watermill
Photo: fabio sassi, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Boloquoy Mill, Sanday is a watermill.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kettletoft.
Kettletoft
Village
Photo: John Comloquoy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kettletoft is a settlement on the island of Sanday in Orkney, Scotland. The B9068 road runs from Kettletoft to Scar and the B9069 from Kettletoft to Northwall.
Sanday
- Category: landform
- Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Sanday” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Sanday (Orkadak)”
- Basque: “Sanday”
- Cebuano: “Sanday Island”
- Cebuano: “Sanday”
- Chinese: “桑迪島”
- Czech: “ostrov ve Skotsku”
- Czech: “Sanday”
- Danish: “Sanday (Orkney)”
- Danish: “Sanday”
- Dutch: “Sanday”
- French: “Sanday”
- German: “Sanday”
- Greek: “Σάντι”
- Italian: “Sanday”
- Japanese: “サンデー島”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sanday”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sanday i Orknøyane”
- Norwegian: “Sanday”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sandeg, Orcanege”
- Polish: “Sanday”
- Russian: “Сандей”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Sanndaigh, Arcaibh”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Sanndaigh”
- Slovak: “Sanday”
- Swedish: “Sanday”
- Welsh: “Sanday”
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