Shapinsay (/ˈʃæpɪnziː/, Scots: Shapinsee) is one of the Orkney Islands off the north coast of mainland Scotland. With an area of 29.5 square kilometres...
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MV Shapinsay is a Ro-Ro vehicle ferry operated by Orkney Ferries. MV Shapinsay was built by Yorkshire Drydock in Kingston upon Hull in 1989. She was refurbished...
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Colchester). After the Agricolan fleet had come and gone, possibly anchoring at Shapinsay, direct Roman influence seems to have been limited to trade rather than...
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Mill Dam (redirect from Mill Dam, Shapinsay)
Mill Dam is a wetland in western Shapinsay, in Orkney, Scotland. This water body was not shown on the 1840 survey map of the island, since it is a man-made...
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test site at Scapa Flow, off St. Mary's Bay Scale tidal test site at Shapinsay Sound, off the Head of Holland Stromness (office and data facilities)...
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Papay, and North Ronaldsay. The Shapinsay service, linking Kirkwall on Orkney Mainland to the northern island of Shapinsay. The Rousay, Egilsay and Wyre...
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Great Ouse Ouse, Tasmania, a town in Australia The Ouse, an estuary on Shapinsay, in the Orkney Islands, Scotland Grand River (Ontario), Canada, formerly...
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Balfour, Orkney (redirect from Balfour, Shapinsay)
Balfour is a village on the island of Shapinsay, Orkney. The village is situated on Elwick Bay, which was used as an anchorage by Haakon IV of Norway...
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rocks are found on western Hoy, on Deerness in eastern Mainland and on Shapinsay. A correlation between the Hoy volcanics and the other two exposures has...
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List of bays of the Orkney Islands (section Shapinsay)
2°50′25″W / 59.0231°N 2.8404°W / 59.0231; -2.8404 (Bay of Sandgarth) Shapinsay Balfour 59°01′57″N 2°54′08″W / 59.0326°N 2.9021°W / 59.0326; -2.9021...
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after 2005. There are also suggested plans to connect Orkney Mainland to Shapinsay. With recent developments of the renewables industry in the Pentland Firth...
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Washington Irving's parents were William Irving Sr., originally of Quholm, Shapinsay, Orkney, Scotland, and Sarah (née Saunders), originally of Falmouth, Cornwall...
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Balfour Castle (category Shapinsay)
Balfour Castle is a historic building on the southwest of Shapinsay, Orkney Islands. Though built around an older structure that dates at least from the...
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List of lochs of Orkney (section Shapinsay)
This is a list of the named lochs of Orkney, Scotland. There are numerous lochs, both large and small, scattered across the islands of this archipelago...
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969173°N 27.523019°E / 66.969173; 27.523019 Castle hotel Balfour Castle, Shapinsay, Orkney, United Kingdom 59°01′54″N 2°55′00″W / 59.031684°N 2.916767°W...
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Sanday, 23 June 1863 under Capt James Scarth 3rd (Shapinsay) OAV – formed at Balfour on Shapinsay Island 10 July 1863 under Capt David Balfour, with...
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South Ronaldsay Sanday Westray Rousay Gairsay Eday Auskerry Stronsay Shapinsay Burray Copinsay Foula Whalsay Yell Unst Fair Isle Fetlar Bressay East...
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Skerry Sound to Mainland and passing the 4 km wide and 30 m deep Shapinsay Sound to Shapinsay. From its northern tip Ness of Ork, the 6 km wide and 110 m deep...
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ancient Archaean Lewisian Gneiss which was formed 3 billion years ago; Shapinsay and other Orkney islands are formed from Old Red Sandstone, which is 400...
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Head, Muckle Quoy. Rousay: Little Brig, Muckle Brig. Sanday: Baa Gruna, Shapinsay: Broad Shoal, Grass Holm, Skerry of Vasa. Stronsay: Holms of Spurness...
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case of Old Scatness in Shetland (near Jarlshof) and Burroughston on Shapinsay, brochs were sometimes located close to arable land and a source of water...
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structure at Caithness has been likened to discoveries at Midgarth and on Shapinsay. Numerous coastal castles (now mostly ruins) are Norwegian (West Norse)...
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John Balfour (Orkney MP) (category Shapinsay)
in the East India Company with connections to the Orcadian island of Shapinsay. John Balfour was the son of William Balfour, a factor to the Dundas family...
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This is a list of listed buildings in the parish of Shapinsay in Orkney, Scotland. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML...
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Republic of Ireland Eigg 30 12 38 67 70 Small Isles Scotland, United Kingdom Shapinsay 30 12 38 300 45 Orkney Islands Scotland, United Kingdom Bressay 28 11...
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India Väsa, a village in Dalarna, Sweden Vasa Loch, a brackish lagoon in Shapinsay, Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK Vasa Township, Goodhue County, Minnesota...
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Greece Straumøya 29.5 11 Norway Kirkeøy (in Østfold) 29.5 11 Norway Shapinsay 29 11 United Kingdom ( Scotland) Vårdö 29 11 Finland ( Åland) Čiovo...
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Lothian Linton, Orkney Linton, Scottish Borders Linton Bay, island of Shapinsay West Linton, Scottish Borders Linton, New Zealand, a suburb of Palmerston...
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assumes a development parallel to that of Shetland < OScand. Hjaltland, Shapinsay < Hjalpandisey, etc. The starting point is the morphologically and chronologically...
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between the Mainland and the isle of Shapinsay. It is at the west end of the strait between Mainland and Shapinsay, known as the String. It is south west...
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