South Stack
South Stack is an island connected by a bridge to Holy Island which is part of the island of Anglesey. It is also the name given to the land adjacent to the island.
Places of Interest
Highlights: Holyhead Mountain and South Stack Lighthouse.
Elin’s Tower
Building
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Holyhead and Penrhosfeilw.
South Stack
- Type: Island
- Description: island on the northwest coast of Anglesey, Wales
- Categories: suspension bridge, footbridge, and landform
- Location: Trearddur Bay, Anglesey, Wales, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.307° or 53° 18′ 25″ north
Longitude
-4.699° or 4° 41′ 56″ west
Elevation
39 feet (12 metres)
Open location code
9C5Q8842+QC
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Breton to Welsh—“South Stack” goes by many names.
- Breton: “Ynys Lawd”
- Cebuano: “South Stack”
- Chinese: “南栈岛”
- French: “South Stack”
- German: “South Stack”
- Italian: “South Stack”
- Livvi: “Ynys Lawd”
- Northern Sami: “Ynys Lawd”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “South Stack”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “South Stack”
- Norwegian: “South Stack”
- Polish: “South Stack”
- Romanian: “South Stack”
- Russian: “Саут-Стак”
- Russian: “Южный Стэк”
- Swedish: “South Stack”
- Welsh: “Ynys Lawd”
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