Shapinsay
Shapinsay is one of the smaller Orkney Islands, a short ferry ride from Mainland Orkney. It measures about 7 miles north-south by 3 miles east-west, with a population in 2011 of 307, and Balfour the only village.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: C Michael Hogan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Purplebaron, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Linton Chapel and Helliar Holm.
Linton Chapel
Ruins
Photo: C Michael Hogan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Linton Chapel is a ruined chapel on the east coast of Shapinsay, Orkney. The chapel is thought to date as early as the 12th century AD. Slightly to the south is a megalithic monument, Castle Bloody.
Helliar Holm
Islet
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Helliar Holm is an uninhabited island off the coast of Shapinsay in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. It is home to a 42-foot-tall lighthouse, which was built in 1893 and automated in 1967.
Lairo Water
Lairo Water is a surface water body known as an ayre situated on the western coast of Shapinsay in the Orkney Islands. This brackish water body is separated by a narrow bar of land from Veantro Bay.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Balfour and Quholm.
Balfour
Village
Photo: Shirley Grant, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Balfour is a village on the island of Shapinsay, Orkney. The village is situated on Elwick Bay, which was used as an anchorage by Haakon IV of Norway before sailing south to eventual defeat at the Battle of Largs in 1263.
Quholm
Hamlet
Photo: C Michael Hogan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Quholm is a farm in the northeast of Shapinsay, in the islands of Orkney, Scotland.
Shapinsay
- Type: Island
- Description: island and civil parish in Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK
- Categories: Scottish civil parish and landform
- Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
59.0524° or 59° 3′ 9″ northLongitude
-2.867° or 2° 52′ 1″ westPopulation
307Elevation
102 feet (31 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB SPYOpen location code
9CFV342M+X6OpenStreetMap ID
way 4569357GeoNames ID
2638133Wikidata ID
Q1434255
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Shapinsay” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شابينساي”
- Basque: “Shapinsay”
- Bulgarian: “Шапинсай”
- Cebuano: “Shapinsay”
- Chinese: “沙平賽島”
- Chinese: “沙平赛岛”
- Czech: “Shapinsay”
- Dutch: “Shapinsay”
- French: “Shapinsay”
- German: “Shapinsay”
- Greek: “Σάπινσι”
- Irish: “Siapansaigh”
- Italian: “Shapinsay”
- Japanese: “シェイビンセー島”
- Japanese: “シェイビンゼイ島”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shapinsay”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shapinsay”
- Norwegian: “Shapinsay”
- Persian: “شاپینسی”
- Polish: “Shapinsay”
- Portuguese: “Shapinsay”
- Russian: “Шапинсей”
- Scots: “Shapinsay”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Siapansaigh”
- Spanish: “Shapinsay”
- Swedish: “Shapinsay”
- Vietnamese: “Shapinsay”
- Welsh: “Shapinsay”
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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 “Shapinsay”. Photo: Purplebaron, Public domain.