Retta Skerries
Retta Skerries is in Shetland Islands, Scotland. Retta Skerries is situated nearby to the locality Sandy Voe, as well as near the village Hamnavoe.Places of Interest
Highlights include Oxna and Hildasay.
Oxna
Island
Photo: Jon Beer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Oxna is one of the Scalloway Islands, lying north west of Burra in Shetland, Scotland. Oxna has an area of 68 hectares. The island has been uninhabited since the First World War, but there is a house which is still used as a holiday home. Papa island lies a few hundred metres to the east of Oxna's north coast.
Hildasay
Island
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Hildasay, also known as Hildisay, is an uninhabited island off the west coast of the Shetland Mainland.
Papa
Islet
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Papa is an uninhabited island in the Scalloway Islands, Shetland, Scotland. Papa lies north west of Burra and east of Oxna in the Shetland Islands. The population was 20 in 1871, 14 in 1881 and 23 in 1891.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Scalloway and Burwick.
Scalloway
Scalloway is a fishing village in the Shetland Islands. It was the capital of these islands until 1708 when Lerwick supplanted it. The population in 2011 was 900.
Burwick
Hamlet
Burwick is a small peninsula north of Scalloway in the Shetland Islands, Scotland. The Hill of Burwick rises to 107 metres, the Ness of Burwick is a headland that guards the bay of Bur Wick, and Burwick Holm is a small island with an elevation of about 10 metres, just off shore in the Scalloway Islands.
Retta Skerries
- Type: Coastline
- Category: landform
- Location: Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
60.1312° or 60° 7′ 52″ northLongitude
-1.3773° or 1° 22′ 38″ westOpen location code
9CGW4JJF+F3OpenStreetMap ID
way 230192223OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastline
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Localities in the Area
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