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Walls

Walls or Waas is a small fishing village on the west Mainland of the . The main reasons to come are the Neolithic "Temple" and to take the ferry to , or the ferry from West Burrafirth to Papa Stour.
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  • Type: Village
  • Description: village in Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Waas” and “Walls, Shetland”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Vaila and Linga.

Island
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is an in , , lying south of the Westland peninsula of the Shetland Mainland. It has an area of 327 hectares, and is 95 metres at its highest point.

Islet
Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is one of the Shetland Islands, near and Walls on . Its highest elevation is 28 metres.

Walls

Latitude
60.2293° or 60° 13′ 46″ north
Longitude
-1.5663° or 1° 33′ 59″ west
Elevation
3 feet (1 metre)
United Nations Location Codes
GB WLZ and GB LOY
Open location code
9CGW6CHM+PF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 254610386
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2634865
Wiki­data ID
Q2816645
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Swedish—“Walls” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Walls”
  • Dutch: “Walls”
  • Faroese: “Walls”
  • French: “Walls”
  • German: “Walls”
  • Japanese: “ウォールズ”
  • Russian: “Уолс (Великобритания)”
  • Russian: “Уолс”
  • Scots: “Waas, Shetland”
  • Scots: “Waas”
  • Slovenian: “Walls”
  • Swedish: “Walls”

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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 “Walls”. Photo: Ronnie Robertson, CC BY-SA 2.0.