Yell
Yell is one of the North Isles of the Shetland Islands, north of mainland Scotland. It's 20 miles long by 5 miles wide, thinly populated: 966 as of 2011.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island of the Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Yell Island” and “Yell, Shetland”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mid Yell and West Sandwick.
Mid Yell
Village
Photo: Mike Pennington, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mid Yell is a coastal settlement on the island Yell, the second-largest of Shetland Islands, Scotland. Mid Yell, the largest settlement on the island, is at the head of Mid Yell Voe on the B9081 road about 1 mile from its junction with the A968 road.
West Sandwick
Hamlet
Photo: Mike Pennington, CC BY-SA 2.0.
West Sandwick is a settlement on the island of Yell, Shetland Islands, Scotland. It is one of the few settlements in the west of the island. West Sandwick contains one of the major recreational beaches in Yell.
Aywick
Hamlet
Photo: Mike Pennington, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Aywick is a small settlement on the east side of Yell, an island forming part of the Shetland Islands north of Scotland. The naturalist Bobby Tulloch was born and grew up in Aywick.
Yell
- Category: landform
- Location: Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Western Panjabi—“Yell” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Yell”
- Bulgarian: “Йел”
- Catalan: “Yell”
- Cebuano: “Yell”
- Chinese: “耶爾島”
- Czech: “Yell”
- Danish: “Yell”
- Dutch: “Yell”
- Faroese: “Yell”
- French: “Yell”
- German: “Yell”
- Greek: “Γελλ”
- Hebrew: “יל”
- Hungarian: “Yell”
- Icelandic: “Gjall”
- Icelandic: “Yell”
- Irish: “Yell”
- Italian: “Yell”
- Japanese: “イエル島”
- Korean: “옐섬”
- Lithuanian: “Jelas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yell”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yell”
- Norwegian: “Yell”
- Polish: “Yell”
- Portuguese: “Yell (Shetland)”
- Portuguese: “Yell”
- Russian: “Йелл”
- Scots: “Yell”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Yell”
- Spanish: “Yell”
- Swahili: “Yell”
- Swedish: “Yell”
- Welsh: “Yell”
- Western Panjabi: “یل”
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