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Staffa

Staffa is an island in the , best known for Fingal's Cave. It's an uninhabited wildlife reserve extending 1 km north-south by 500 m east-west, owned by the National Trust for Scotland and reached by boat trips from .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Fingal’s Cave.

Cave
Photo: Nick R, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fingal's Cave is a sea cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa, in the of , known for its natural acoustics. The National Trust for Scotland owns the cave as part of a national nature reserve.

Staffa

Latitude
56.4358° or 56° 26′ 9″ north
Longitude
-6.3418° or 6° 20′ 30″ west
Elevation
79 feet (24 metres)
Open location code
9C8MCMP5+87
Open­Street­Map ID
way 124370823
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­islet
Geo­Names ID
2637145
Wiki­data ID
Q250117
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Western Panjabi—“Staffa” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Ստաֆա”
  • Basque: “Staffa”
  • Breton: “Stafa”
  • Catalan: “Staffa”
  • Cebuano: “Staffa”
  • Chinese: “斯塔法岛”
  • Danish: “Staffa”
  • Dutch: “Staffa”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ستافا”
  • Estonian: “Staffa”
  • Finnish: “Staffa”
  • French: “Staffa”
  • German: “Staffa”
  • Hebrew: “סטאפה”
  • Hungarian: “Staffa”
  • Indonesian: “Staffa”
  • Irish: “Stafa”
  • Italian: “Staffa”
  • Japanese: “スタファ島”
  • Javanese: “Staffa”
  • Low German: “Staffa”
  • Minangkabau: “Staffa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Staffa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Staffa”
  • Norwegian: “Staffa”
  • Polish: “Staffa”
  • Russian: “Остров Стаффа”
  • Russian: “Стаффа”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Stafa”
  • Slovenian: “Staffa”
  • Spanish: “Staffa”
  • Sundanese: “Pulo Staffa”
  • Swedish: “Staffa”
  • Ukrainian: “Стаффа”
  • Welsh: “Stafa”
  • Western Panjabi: “سٹافا”

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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 “Staffa”. Photo: Pderuvo, CC BY-SA 4.0.