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    Hoy (from Old Norse Háey, meaning "high island") is an island in Orkney, Scotland, measuring 143 square kilometres (55 sq mi) – the second largest in...
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    The Old Man of Hoy is a 449-foot (137-metre) sea stack on Hoy, part of the Orkney archipelago off the north coast of Scotland. Formed from Old Red Sandstone...
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    Orkney (/ˈɔːrkni/), also known as the Orkney Islands or, the often deprecated, Orkneys, is an archipelago off the north coast of Scotland. Part of the...
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  • Constance, Germany Hoy, Orkney, an island in Orkney, Scotland Hoy (hamlet), a location on the Orkney island of the same name Hoy, Shetland, a small island...
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    island of Hoy in Orkney, Scotland. It lies at the north of the island between Moaness and Rackwick, and is the highest point in both Orkney and the Scottish...
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    Dwarfie Stane (category Hoy, Orkney)
    glaciated valley between the settlements of Quoys and Rackwick on Hoy, an island in Orkney, Scotland. The stone is a glacial erratic located in desolate peatland...
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    This is a list of Orkney islands in Scotland. The Orkney archipelago is located 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) north of mainland Scotland and comprises over 70...
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    an Armin and Stac Lee in the St Kilda archipelago and the Old Man of Hoy, Orkney. Some provide well known and challenging rock climbing routes. There...
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    Rackwick (category Hoy, Orkney)
    small coastal crofting township in the north west of the island of Hoy in Orkney, Scotland. As well as a handful of tourist amenities the township is...
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    Magnetic North. Corrigall lived in Greengairs Cottage near Rysa on Hoy on Orkney in the 1770s. At the age of 27, she had a short romance and became pregnant...
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    Graemsay (redirect from Hoy Lighthouse)
    in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. The island has two lighthouses. Graemsay lies within the parish of Stromness. Graemsay lies between Hoy and Stromness...
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    offshore islands, most of which are to be found in four main groups: Shetland, Orkney, and the Hebrides, sub-divided into the Inner Hebrides and Outer Hebrides...
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    Stromness (redirect from Stromness, Orkney)
    includes the islands of Hoy and Graemsay in addition to a tract of land about 5 by 3+3⁄4 miles (8.0 by 6.0 kilometres) on Mainland, Orkney. The Mainland part...
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    Scapa Flow Museum (category Museums in Orkney)
    Scapa Flow Museum is a war museum in Lyness on the Island of Hoy, Orkney, Scotland. Housed within a refurbished Romney hut and oil fuel pump house at...
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    Hoy and West Mainland is a national scenic area (NSA) covering parts of the islands of Hoy and Mainland in the Orkney Islands of Scotland, as well as...
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    South Walls (redirect from South Walls, Hoy)
    island or peninsula at the southern end of Hoy in Orkney, Scotland. It is connected to the main body of Hoy, and to the district of North Walls, by a thin...
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    Highland Fowlsheugh, Aberdeenshire Glenborrodale, Highland Hobbister, Orkney Hoy, Orkney Insh Marshes, Badenoch and Strathspey, Highland Inversnaid Ken-Dee...
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    on the Orkney Mainland to the southern islands of Hoy, South Walls and Flotta. The Graemsay and North Hoy service, linking Stromness on Orkney Mainland...
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    Aberdeenshire (stack with remains of Pictish hill fort) Old Man of Hoy, Orkney Old Man of Stoer, Sutherland Rockall, North Atlantic (isolated volcanic...
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  • on the western tip of the Isle of Wight The Needle, Orkney, a sea stack on the island of Hoy, Orkney, Scotland Needle Mountains, Colorado, United States...
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  • Trow (folklore) (category Culture of Orkney)
    Calder, Charles S. T.; MacDonald, George (1936), "The Dwarfie Stane, Hoy, Orkney: its period and purpose. Note on 'Jo. Ben' and the Dwarfie Stane" (PDF)...
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    are now on view at the Scapa Flow Visitor Centre and Museum, Lyness, Hoy, Orkney. Three Vickers 3 Pounder Mk II Quick-Firing deck guns were also salvaged...
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    Norse: Færey ) is a small island in Orkney, Scotland, lying in Scapa Flow between the islands of Flotta and Hoy. It has been uninhabited since the 1960s...
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    Submarine communication cables crossing the Scottish shore at Scad Head on Hoy, Orkney....
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  • 70-metre-high (230 ft) sea stack on the island of Hoy, in Orkney, Scotland. It is located on the southwest coast of Hoy at ND243902. There is only one known rock...
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    MV Hoy Head is a Ro-Ro vehicle ferry operated by Orkney Ferries. MV Hoy Head was built by Appledore Shipbuilders in North Devon in 1994. In 2013, the ferry...
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  • the North Atlantic, second highest sea cliff in the UK St John's Head, Hoy, Orkney, 335m above the North Atlantic, highest purely vertical sea cliff in...
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    coastal settlement on the island of South Walls, in Orkney, Scotland. South Walls is linked to Hoy by causeway; Longhope is the largest settlement on the...
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    Lyness (category Hoy, Orkney)
    Lyness is a village on the east coast of the island of Hoy, Orkney, Scotland. The village is within the parish of Walls and Flotta, and is situated at...
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    main island of Orkney, Scotland. Both of Orkney's burghs, Kirkwall and Stromness, lie on the island, which is also the heart of Orkney's ferry and air...
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