Whalsay
Whalsay is one of the Shetland Islands, 5 miles northeast of the Shetland Mainland, with a population of 1061 in 2011. It makes its living from fishing and crofting, and is seldom visited by tourists though it's easily reached.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: John Dally, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Island
- Description: island, one of the Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Whalsey” and “Whalsey Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Huxter Fort and Suther Ness Lighthouse.
Huxter Fort
Archaeological site
Photo: Robert Sandison, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Huxter Fort is an Iron Age fortification on the island of Whalsay, in the Shetland islands of Scotland, dating to around 300 BC. It is on an islet in the Loch of Huxter, connected to the shore by a causeway.
Whalsay Airstrip
Aerodrome
Whalsay Airstrip is located at the village of Skaw in the northern end of the island of Whalsay, Shetland, Scotland. It is the only airfield serving the island and is available for charter flights.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Huxter.
Huxter
Hamlet
Photo: Robbie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Huxter is a crofting township in southeastern Whalsay in the parish of Nesting in the Shetland islands of Scotland.
Whalsay
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
60.3558° or 60° 21′ 21″ northLongitude
-0.9694° or 0° 58′ 10″ westPopulation
1,060IATA airport code
WHSUnited Nations Location Code
GB WHYOpen location code
9CGX924J+87OpenStreetMap ID
way 10303169OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
2634189Wikidata ID
Q552027
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Whalsay” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Whalsay”
- Cebuano: “Whalsay”
- Chinese: “沃尔赛岛”
- Chinese: “沃爾賽島”
- Danish: “Whalsay”
- Dutch: “Whalsay”
- Dutch: “Whalsey”
- Egyptian Arabic: “والساى”
- Faroese: “Whalsay”
- French: “Whalsay”
- German: “Whalsay”
- Greek: “Γουέλσεϊ”
- Hebrew: “ואלסיי”
- Hebrew: “וולסיי”
- Hungarian: “Whalsay”
- Icelandic: “Hvalsey”
- Italian: “Whalsay”
- Japanese: “ホールセイ島”
- Japanese: “ホエルセー島”
- Japanese: “ホエルセイ島”
- Lithuanian: “Volsėjus”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Whalsay”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Whalsay”
- Norwegian: “Whalsay”
- Portuguese: “Whalsay”
- Russian: “Уолси”
- Scots: “Whalsa”
- Scots: “Whalsay”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Whalsay”
- Spanish: “Whalsay”
- Swahili: “Whalsay”
- Swedish: “Whalsay”
- Ukrainian: “Велсей”
- Welsh: “Whalsay”
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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 “Whalsay”. Photo: Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0.