South Ronaldsay
South Ronaldsay is the most southerly of the Orkney Islands, with its main settlement at St Margaret's Hope, and a population in 2011 of 909. Burray just north has always been joined by a sandy spit to South Ronaldsay.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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- Type: Island
- Description: one of the Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “South Ronaldshay”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cairns O‘ The Bu and Tomison’s Academy, South Ronaldsay.
Cairns O‘ The Bu
Archaeological site
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Cairns O‘ The Bu is an archaeological site.
Tomison’s Academy, South Ronaldsay
Historic building
Photo: David Loutit, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tomison’s Academy, South Ronaldsay is a historic building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sandwick and Brough Ness.
Sandwick
Locality
Photo: John Comloquoy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sandwick is a parish on the west coast of Mainland, Orkney, Scotland, 4 miles north of Stromness. The parish's name derives from the Old Norse Sandvík meaning "Sand Bay".
Herston
Hamlet
Photo: Lis Burke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Herston is a village on South Ronaldsay, Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom. Herston is historically a fishing village but its only industry to speak of is Herston Stained Glass, now that Herston Hikers Hostel is now inactive.
South Ronaldsay
- Category: landform
- Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“South Ronaldsay” goes by many names.
- Basque: “South Ronaldsay”
- Cebuano: “South Ronaldsay”
- Chinese: “南羅納德賽島”
- Czech: “ostrov ve Skotsku”
- Czech: “South Ronaldsay”
- Danish: “South Ronaldsay”
- Dutch: “South Ronaldsay”
- Esperanto: “Suda Ronaldsay”
- French: “South Ronaldsay”
- German: “South Ronaldsay”
- Greek: “Νότιο Ρονάλντσι”
- Hebrew: “דרום רונלדסיי”
- Irish: “Raghnallsaigh”
- Italian: “South Ronaldsay”
- Japanese: “サウス・ロナルドセー島”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “South Ronaldsay”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “South Ronaldsay”
- Norwegian: “South Ronaldsay”
- Polish: “South Ronaldsay”
- Russian: “Саут-Роналдсей”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Raghnallsaigh”
- Spanish: “South Ronaldsay”
- Swedish: “South Ronaldsay”
- Welsh: “South Ronaldsay”
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