Iolaire Memorial

Iolaire Memorial is a memorial in Western Isles, Scotland. Iolaire Memorial is situated nearby to the memorial HMY Iolaire, as well as near the island Eilean Thuilm.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include HMY Iolaire and Arnish Point Lighthouse.

HMY Iolaire

Memorial

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

HMY Iolaire was an iron-hulled steam yacht that was launched in Scotland in 1881 as Iolanthe. She was renamed Mione in 1898; Iolanthe in 1900; and Amalthæa in 1907.

Arnish Point Lighthouse

Lighthouse

Photo: phil smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Arnish Point Lighthouse is situated 4,200 feet west of Iolaire Memorial.

Attendant’s House, Arnish Point Lighthouse, Lewis

Building

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.

Attendant’s House, Arnish Point Lighthouse, Lewis is a building, which is situated 1 mile west of Iolaire Memorial.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Parkend and Holm and Holm.

Parkend and Holm

Hamlet

Photo: M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Parkend is a hamlet in the Sandwick region of the Isle of Lewis, although like Melbost, it is not a part of the Eye Peninsula. Many people erroneously believe it to be a suburb of Stornoway, on the island of Lewis and Harris in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.

Holm

Village

Photo: M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Holm Village is a village in the Scottish Outer Hebrides, on the Isle of Lewis near Stornoway. The modern area of Holm can be split into two distinct areas - "Holm Village" and "Holm Road with Parkend".

Sandwick

Village

Photo: Donald Lawson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Sandwick is a village in the Scottish Outer Hebrides, on the Isle of Lewis and a quasi-suburb of Stornoway. Sandwick is situated within the parish of Stornoway.

Iolaire Memorial

Type: Memorial
Inscription: “Lists all the names of those lost in the sinking of HMY Iolaire”
Category: historic site
Location: Western Isles, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

58.18898° or 58° 11′ 20″ north

Longitude

-6.34911° or 6° 20′ 57″ west

Inception

2019

Open location code

9CCM5MQ2+H9

OpenStreetMap ID

way 665180353

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=memorial

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Highlights include Eilean Thuilm and Sgeir Liath.

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