Stronsay
Stronsay is one of the Orkney Islands, with a population in 2011 of 349. It's low-lying, indented by three large bays, with its main settlement at Whitehall.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 349 residents
- Description: island in Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Stronsay Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Papa Stronsay and Linga Holm.
Papa Stronsay
Island
Photo: Des Colhoun, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Papa Stronsay is a small island in Orkney, Scotland, lying north east of Stronsay. It is 74 hectares in size, and 13 metres above sea level at its highest point.
Linga Holm
Island
Photo: Dave Simpson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Linga Holm, commonly known as Linga, Midgarth and the Holm of Midgarth is an uninhabited Scottish island extending to approximately 57 hectares situated 700 metres west of Stronsay island in the Orkney archipelago.
Stronsay Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Adam Ward, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stronsay Airport is located 15 nautical miles northeast by north of Kirkwall Airport on Stronsay, Orkney Islands, Scotland. Stronsay Aerodrome has a CAA Ordinary Licence that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction as authorised by the licensee.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Whitehall.
Whitehall
Village
Photo: Lis Burke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whitehall is the village on the island of Stronsay, in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. It is a small village with about 50 houses. It also has a shop, a café and heritage centre, known as the Fish Mart; the Stronsay Hotel, with attached pub; a post office, a fisherman's pier and a ferry pier.
Stronsay
- Category: island
- 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—“Stronsay” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Stronsay”
- Cebuano: “Stronsay Island”
- Cebuano: “Stronsay”
- Chinese: “斯特朗賽島”
- Chinese: “斯特朗赛岛”
- Czech: “ostrov v Orknejském souostroví”
- Czech: “Stronsay”
- Dutch: “Stronsay”
- French: “Stronsay”
- German: “Stronsay”
- Greek: “Στρόνσι”
- Hebrew: “סטרונסי”
- Italian: “Stronsay”
- Japanese: “ストロンゼー島”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Stronsay”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Stronsay”
- Norwegian: “Stronsay”
- Russian: “Стронсей”
- Scots: “Stronsay”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Sronsaigh”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Stronsaigh”
- Spanish: “Stronsay”
- Swedish: “Stronsay Island”
- Swedish: “Stronsay”
- Turkish: “Stronsay”
- Welsh: “Stronsay”
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