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href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanday" title="Sanday – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Sanday" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanday_(Orkneje)" title="Sanday (Orkneje) – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Sanday (Orkneje)" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanday" title="Sanday – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Sanday" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanday" title="Sanday – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Sanday" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CE%AC%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B9" title="Σάντι – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Σάντι" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanday_(Orkadak)" title="Sanday (Orkadak) – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Sanday (Orkadak)" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanday_(Orcades)" title="Sanday (Orcades) – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Sanday (Orcades)" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanndaigh,_Arcaibh" title="Sanndaigh, Arcaibh – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="Sanndaigh, Arcaibh" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gàidhlig</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanday_(isole_Orcadi)" title="Sanday (isole Orcadi) – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Sanday (isole Orcadi)" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanday_(Orkney)" title="Sanday (Orkney) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Sanday (Orkney)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E3%83%BC%E5%B3%B6_(%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E8%AB%B8%E5%B3%B6)" title="サンデー島 (オークニー諸島) – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="サンデー島 (オークニー諸島)" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanday" title="Sanday – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Sanday" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link 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style="padding-top:0.2em;line-height:1.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Scots_language" title="Scots language">Scots</a> name</th><td class="infobox-data nickname"><span title="Scots-language text"><i lang="sco">Sandee<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></i></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-top:0.2em;line-height:1.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Old_Norse" title="Old Norse">Old Norse</a> name</th><td class="infobox-data nickname"><span title="Old Norse-language text"><i lang="non">Sandey<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Anderson_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Anderson-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></i></span></td></tr><tr class="note"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-top:0.2em;line-height:1.2em;">Meaning of name</th><td class="infobox-data">Old Norse: sand island<sup id="cite_ref-Smith392_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smith392-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Over_Tresness,_Isle_of_Sanday._-_geograph.org.uk_-_231965.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="An aerial view of the southern coast of Sanday, looking west. Tres Ness and Conninghole are in the foreground."><img alt="An aerial view of the southern coast of Sanday, looking west. Tres Ness and Conninghole are in the foreground." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Over_Tresness%2C_Isle_of_Sanday._-_geograph.org.uk_-_231965.jpg/255px-Over_Tresness%2C_Isle_of_Sanday._-_geograph.org.uk_-_231965.jpg" decoding="async" width="255" height="191" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Over_Tresness%2C_Isle_of_Sanday._-_geograph.org.uk_-_231965.jpg/383px-Over_Tresness%2C_Isle_of_Sanday._-_geograph.org.uk_-_231965.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Over_Tresness%2C_Isle_of_Sanday._-_geograph.org.uk_-_231965.jpg/510px-Over_Tresness%2C_Isle_of_Sanday._-_geograph.org.uk_-_231965.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a></span><br />An aerial view of the southern coast of Sanday, looking west. Tres Ness and Conninghole are in the foreground.</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #efefef">Location</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238443738">.mw-parser-output .locmap .od{position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .id{position:absolute;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .locmap .l0{font-size:0;position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pv{line-height:110%;position:absolute;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pl{line-height:110%;position:absolute;top:-0.75em;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pr{line-height:110%;position:absolute;top:-0.75em;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pv>div{display:inline;padding:1px}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pl>div{display:inline;padding:1px;float:right}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pr>div{display:inline;padding:1px;float:left}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output 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style="top:20.732%;left:82.609%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-3px;top:-3px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Sanday"><img alt="Sanday" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/6px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="6" height="6" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/9px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pl" style="width:6em;right:4px"><div>Sanday</div></div></div></div><div style="padding-top:0.2em">Sanday shown within Orkney</div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-top:0.2em;line-height:1.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_National_Grid" title="Ordnance Survey National Grid">OS grid reference</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="plainlinks 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class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">59°15′N</span> <span class="longitude">2°33′W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">59.25°N 2.55°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">59.25; -2.55</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #efefef">Physical geography</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-top:0.2em;line-height:1.2em;">Island group</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/The_Mainland,_Orkney" class="mw-redirect" title="The Mainland, Orkney">Orkney</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-top:0.2em;line-height:1.2em;">Area</th><td class="infobox-data">5,043 ha (19.5 sq mi)<sup id="cite_ref-Smith392_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smith392-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-top:0.2em;line-height:1.2em;">Area rank</th><td class="infobox-data">21 <sup id="cite_ref-RankNote_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RankNote-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-top:0.2em;line-height:1.2em;">Highest elevation</th><td class="infobox-data">The Wart 65 m (213 ft)<sup id="cite_ref-OS_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OS-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #efefef">Administration</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-top:0.2em;line-height:1.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Subdivisions_of_Scotland" title="Subdivisions of Scotland">Council area</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Orkney" title="Orkney">Orkney Islands</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-top:0.2em;line-height:1.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Countries_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Countries of the United Kingdom">Country</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-top:0.2em;line-height:1.2em;">Sovereign state</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #efefef"><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Scotland" title="Demographics of Scotland">Demographics</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-top:0.2em;line-height:1.2em;">Population</th><td class="infobox-data">494<sup id="cite_ref-NRS_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NRS-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-top:0.2em;line-height:1.2em;">Population rank</th><td class="infobox-data">22 <sup id="cite_ref-RankNote_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RankNote-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-top:0.2em;line-height:1.2em;">Population density</th><td class="infobox-data">9.8 people/km<sup>2</sup><sup id="cite_ref-Smith392_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smith392-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NRS_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NRS-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-top:0.2em;line-height:1.2em;">Largest settlement</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Kettletoft" title="Kettletoft">Kettletoft</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #efefef"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Lymphad"><img alt="Lymphad" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Lymphad3.svg/25px-Lymphad3.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="25" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Lymphad3.svg/39px-Lymphad3.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Lymphad3.svg/51px-Lymphad3.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="177" data-file-height="174" /></span></span></th></tr><tr style="font-size:88%"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-top:0.2em;line-height:1.2em;">References</th><td class="infobox-data"><sup id="cite_ref-Pedersen_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pedersen-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Sanday</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="/æ/: 'a' in 'bad'">æ</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span><span title="'d' in 'dye'">d</span><span title="/iː/: 'ee' in 'fleece'">iː</span></span>/</a></span></span>, <a href="/wiki/Scots_language" title="Scots language">Scots</a>: <i lang="sco">Sandee</i>) is one of the inhabited islands of <a href="/wiki/Orkney" title="Orkney">Orkney</a> that lies off the north coast of mainland <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a>. With an area of 50.43 km<sup>2</sup> (19.5 sq mi),<sup id="cite_ref-Smith392_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smith392-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> it is the third largest of the Orkney Islands.<sup id="cite_ref-Smith334_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smith334-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The main centres of population are Lady Village and <a href="/wiki/Kettletoft" title="Kettletoft">Kettletoft</a>. Sanday can be reached by <a href="/wiki/Orkney_Ferries" title="Orkney Ferries">Orkney Ferries</a> or by plane (<a href="/wiki/Sanday_Airport" title="Sanday Airport">Sanday Airport</a>) from <a href="/wiki/Kirkwall" title="Kirkwall">Kirkwall</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Orkney_Mainland" class="mw-redirect" title="Orkney Mainland">Orkney Mainland</a>. On Sanday, an on-demand public minibus service allows connecting to the ferry. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sanday,_Orkney&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Picts" title="Picts">Picts</a> were the pre-Norse inhabitants of Sanday but very few placenames remain from this period.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Norse named the island <span title="Old Norse-language text"><i lang="non">Sandey</i></span><sup id="cite_ref-Anderson_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Anderson-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or <span title="Old Norse-language text"><i lang="non">Sand-øy</i></span><sup id="cite_ref-Smith392_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smith392-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> because of the predominance of sandy <a href="/wiki/Beach" title="Beach">beaches</a> and this became "Sanday" during the <a href="/wiki/Scots_language" title="Scots language">Scots</a>- and English-speaking periods. The similarly named <a href="/wiki/Sandoy" title="Sandoy">Sandoy</a> is in the <a href="/wiki/Faroe_Islands" title="Faroe Islands">Faroe Islands</a>. </p><p>Many names of places and natural features derive from <a href="/wiki/Old_Norse" title="Old Norse">Old Norse</a>. According to Dorward (1995), the placename <i>Kettletoft</i> means '<a href="/wiki/Kettil" title="Kettil">Kettil</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Croft_(land)" title="Croft (land)">croft</a>'<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although <i>toft</i> in this context may mean 'abandoned site of house' from the Norse <span title="Old Norse-language text"><i lang="non">topt</i></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-Orkhouse_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Orkhouse-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The suffix <i>-bister</i> found in Sellibister and Overbister is from <span title="Old Norse-language text"><i lang="non">bólstaðr</i></span> meaning 'dwelling' or 'farm'.<sup id="cite_ref-Orkhouse_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Orkhouse-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other common suffixes are <i>-wick</i> and <i>-ness</i> from the Norse <span title="Old Norse-language text"><i lang="non">vík</i></span> and <span title="Old Norse-language text"><i lang="non">nes</i></span> and meaning 'bay' and 'headland' respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Frances Groome, Otterswick was originally known as <span title="Old Norse-language text"><i lang="non">Odinswic</i></span>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Environment">Environment</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sanday,_Orkney&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Environment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Geography_and_geology">Geography and geology</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sanday,_Orkney&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Geography and geology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sanday lies south of <a href="/wiki/North_Ronaldsay" title="North Ronaldsay">North Ronaldsay</a> and east of <a href="/wiki/Eday" title="Eday">Eday</a> and <a href="/wiki/Westray" title="Westray">Westray</a>. It is divided naturally into two roughly equal halves by Otterswick, a bay which runs in from the north, and Kettletoft Bay in the south. The narrow <a href="/wiki/Isthmus" title="Isthmus">isthmus</a> between them formed the boundary between the historic parishes Cross and Burness to the west and Lady to the east.<sup id="cite_ref-Steiness41_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Steiness41-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The novelist <a href="/wiki/Eric_Linklater" title="Eric Linklater">Eric Linklater</a> described Sanday's shape seen from the air as being like that of a giant fossilised bat.<sup id="cite_ref-Smith392_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Smith392-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tresness, a <a href="/wiki/Tied_island" title="Tied island">tied island</a>, extends from the south of Lady parish. It is connected to Sanday by a long <a href="/wiki/Tombolo" title="Tombolo">tombolo</a> which is backed with some of Scotland's highest sand dunes. </p><p>Changing post-glacial sea levels will have much altered the shape of this low-lying island since the last <a href="/wiki/Ice_age" title="Ice age">ice age</a>. William Traill described a gale in 1838 which removed 20 hectares (49 acres) of sand in Otterswick Bay. This revealed a dark layer of decayed vegetation under fallen trees up to 60 centimetres (24 in) in diameter. The trees lay "as if felled by a storm" and were visible under the sea for 6.5 kilometres (4.0 mi). A search for these tree remains in the 20th century was unsuccessful.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Inland it is fertile and <a href="/wiki/Agricultural" class="mw-redirect" title="Agricultural">agricultural</a> and there is some commercial lobster fishing. The underlying geology is predominantly <a href="/wiki/Devonian" title="Devonian">Devonian</a> sediments of the Rousay flagstone group with Eday sandstone in the south east.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are several small bodies of freshwater on the island including North Loch, Bea Loch near Kettletoft and Roos Loch on the Burness peninsula.<sup id="cite_ref-OS_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OS-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Natural_history">Natural history</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sanday,_Orkney&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Natural history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above">Designations</th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><div style="border:4px solid #8DE3D2; line-height: 1.5; text-align: center;"> <a href="/wiki/Ramsar_Convention" title="Ramsar Convention">Ramsar Wetland</a></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Official name</th><td class="infobox-data">East Sanday Coast</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Designated</th><td class="infobox-data">11 August 1997</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Reference no.</th><td class="infobox-data">917<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr></tbody></table> <p><a href="/wiki/Seal_(mammal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Seal (mammal)">Seals</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eurasian_otter" title="Eurasian otter">Eurasian otters</a> can be found in and around Sanday. There are several <a href="/wiki/SSSI" class="mw-redirect" title="SSSI">SSSIs</a> on the island and the marine coast around the east of the island is designated a <a href="/wiki/Special_Protection_Area" title="Special Protection Area">Special Protection Area</a> due to presence of sand dune and <a href="/wiki/Machair" title="Machair">machair</a> habitats, rare outside the Hebrides, as well as extensive intertidal flats and saltmarsh.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The eastern coast of Sanday has been designated an <a href="/wiki/Important_Bird_Area" title="Important Bird Area">Important Bird Area</a> (IBA) by <a href="/wiki/BirdLife_International" title="BirdLife International">BirdLife International</a> because it supports wintering and breeding <a href="/wiki/Wader" title="Wader">waders</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-bli_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bli-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Transport">Transport</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sanday,_Orkney&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Transport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Airport">Airport</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sanday,_Orkney&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Airport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Loganair" title="Loganair">Loganair</a> operates regular flights from <a href="/wiki/Kirkwall_Airport" title="Kirkwall Airport">Kirkwall Airport</a> to <a href="/wiki/Sanday_Airport" title="Sanday Airport">Sanday Airport</a>. There are also flights from Sanday to <a href="/wiki/Stronsay_Airport" title="Stronsay Airport">Stronsay Airport</a>, and <a href="/wiki/North_Ronaldsay_Airport" title="North Ronaldsay Airport">North Ronaldsay Airport</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ferry">Ferry</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sanday,_Orkney&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Ferry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Orkney_Ferries" title="Orkney Ferries">Orkney Ferries</a> operates a regular ferry service between Kirkwall and Sanday, with the boat coming in at Loth Pier in Cross. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bus">Bus</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sanday,_Orkney&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Bus"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Sanday Bus operates a timetabled bus service around the island of Sanday which eventually reaches Loth Pier, via Kettletoft, Lady Village, and <a href="/wiki/Sanday_Airport" title="Sanday Airport">Sanday Airport</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Train">Train</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sanday,_Orkney&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Train"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Sanday_Light_Railway" title="Sanday Light Railway">Sanday Light Railway</a> operated a rail service between <a href="/wiki/Braeswick" title="Braeswick">Braeswick</a> and Laminess, between three stations, between 1999 and 2006. The railway eventually shut at the end of 2006 and by 2020 the last of the tracks had been lifted and removed. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Prehistory">Prehistory</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sanday,_Orkney&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Prehistory"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Quoyness_Chambered_Cairn_-_geograph.org.uk_-_86230.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Quoyness_Chambered_Cairn_-_geograph.org.uk_-_86230.jpg/220px-Quoyness_Chambered_Cairn_-_geograph.org.uk_-_86230.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Quoyness_Chambered_Cairn_-_geograph.org.uk_-_86230.jpg/330px-Quoyness_Chambered_Cairn_-_geograph.org.uk_-_86230.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Quoyness_Chambered_Cairn_-_geograph.org.uk_-_86230.jpg/440px-Quoyness_Chambered_Cairn_-_geograph.org.uk_-_86230.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="448" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Quoyness" class="mw-redirect" title="Quoyness">Quoyness chambered cairn</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Neolithic" title="Neolithic">Neolithic</a> <a href="/wiki/Quoyness_chambered_cairn" title="Quoyness chambered cairn">Quoyness chambered cairn</a>, dates from around 2900 BC. An arc of <a href="/wiki/Bronze_Age" title="Bronze Age">Bronze Age</a> mounds surrounds this cairn on the Elsness peninsula.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A large man-made mound at Pool was excavated in the 1980s. This indicated a Neolithic structure made of turf or burnt <a href="/wiki/Peat" title="Peat">peat</a>, a later pre-Viking sub-circular structure with pavings and cells, and a <a href="/wiki/Viking" class="mw-redirect" title="Viking">Viking</a> stone and turf rectangular building dated to the late 8th or early 9th century. Various implements were also discovered including pre-Norse hipped pins and pottery from both the pre-Viking and Norse periods. A predominance of fish and animal bones suggests the site was used for meat processing.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Excavations of a mound in 1991, ahead of road development on the Spurness peninsula discovered two <a href="/wiki/Cist" title="Cist">cist</a> burials with some cremated human remains from the Early to Middle <a href="/wiki/Bronze_Age_Britain" title="Bronze Age Britain">Bronze Age</a>. Notable finds were a piece drift wood from the Americas and a soapstone (steatite) vessels. Soapstone is not natural to Orkney and analysis indicated that the material came from <a href="/wiki/Catpund" title="Catpund">Catpund</a> in <a href="/wiki/Shetland" title="Shetland">Shetland</a> and that people or goods were moving between the two archipelagos at that time.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Storms in January 2005 exposed a Bronze Age burnt burial mound at Meur.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There are several ruined <a href="/wiki/Iron_Age" title="Iron Age">Iron Age</a> <a href="/wiki/Broch" title="Broch">brochs</a> on the island such as the Broch of Wasso, a 5-metre-high (16 ft) mound at Tres Ness.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Scar_Plaque,_Scar_Viking_boat_burial,_Sanday,_Orkney.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Scar_Plaque%2C_Scar_Viking_boat_burial%2C_Sanday%2C_Orkney.jpg/220px-Scar_Plaque%2C_Scar_Viking_boat_burial%2C_Sanday%2C_Orkney.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Scar_Plaque%2C_Scar_Viking_boat_burial%2C_Sanday%2C_Orkney.jpg/330px-Scar_Plaque%2C_Scar_Viking_boat_burial%2C_Sanday%2C_Orkney.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Scar_Plaque%2C_Scar_Viking_boat_burial%2C_Sanday%2C_Orkney.jpg/440px-Scar_Plaque%2C_Scar_Viking_boat_burial%2C_Sanday%2C_Orkney.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2411" data-file-height="3616" /></a><figcaption>The Scar dragon plaque found in 1991</figcaption></figure> <p>The nature of the culture that built the brochs remains a matter of debate<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but it is known that later Iron Age Orkney was part of the <a href="/wiki/Picts" title="Picts">Pictish</a> kingdom and from at least the mid-6th century onwards that <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a> had spread to the islands.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, the archeological record for this period is sparse<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and little is known of life on Sanday at this time beyond that which can be assumed from a knowledge of Pictish society elsewhere. The local heritage centre shows a Pictish decorated stone showing a cross. </p><p>In September 2021, archaeologists from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Central_Lancashire" title="University of Central Lancashire">Central Lancashire University</a> announced the discovery of  two polished stone balls in a 5500 years-old <a href="/wiki/Neolithic" title="Neolithic">Neolithic</a> burial tomb. According to Dr Hugo Anderson, second object was as the “size of a <a href="/wiki/Cricket" title="Cricket">cricket</a> ball, perfectly spherical and beautifully finished".<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sanday,_Orkney&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Orkney became part of the <a href="/wiki/Scandinavia" title="Scandinavia">Scandinavian</a> polity from perhaps the 9th century onwards. In 1991 the <a href="/wiki/Scar_boat_burial" title="Scar boat burial">Scar boat burial</a> was discovered on the coast of Sanday near Burness. This Norse-era vessel, which had been 6.5-metre (21 ft) long and 1.5-metre (4.9 ft) wide, had rotted away, leaving more than 300 iron rivets.<sup id="cite_ref-Canmore_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Canmore-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The enclosure, dated to 875—950 AD, was found to contain the remains of a man, a woman, and a child, along with numerous <a href="/wiki/Grave_goods" title="Grave goods">grave goods</a>. These included a sword, quiver with arrows, bone comb, gaming pieces and the Scar dragon plaque, made from whale bone.<sup id="cite_ref-Canmore_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Canmore-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Orkneyjar_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Orkneyjar-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/Medieval" class="mw-redirect" title="Medieval">medieval</a> period Sanday had 36 <a href="/wiki/Ounceland" title="Ounceland">ouncelands</a>, which may have been divided into two 'huseby' districts for taxation purposes with Lady to the east forming a unit with <a href="/wiki/Stronsay" title="Stronsay">Stronsay</a> and Cross and Burness to the west being combined with <a href="/wiki/Eday" title="Eday">Eday</a> and other isles to the west and north.<sup id="cite_ref-Steiness41_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Steiness41-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The main farm for the western district may have been located between Pool Bay and Warsetter at a site called Housay that is now just a mound.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the mid-17th century an annexe to <a href="/wiki/Joan_Blaeu" title="Joan Blaeu">Blaeu's</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Atlas_Maior" title="Atlas Maior">Atlas Novus</a></i> of Scotland recorded that Sanday's low lying topography meant that "shipwreck often occurs to those who sail there at night. The inhabitants of Sanday earnestly and often desire this to happen, so that they get a supply of material for fire from the wrecked ships". The writer went on to state that the lack of peat meant that dried seaweed was "saved like treasure" for cooking fires and that only the better-off citizens could afford to bring peat from Eday "over the most fearful sea".<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stove_model_farm_-_geograph.org.uk_-_230874.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Stove_model_farm_-_geograph.org.uk_-_230874.jpg/220px-Stove_model_farm_-_geograph.org.uk_-_230874.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Stove_model_farm_-_geograph.org.uk_-_230874.jpg/330px-Stove_model_farm_-_geograph.org.uk_-_230874.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Stove_model_farm_-_geograph.org.uk_-_230874.jpg/440px-Stove_model_farm_-_geograph.org.uk_-_230874.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>The ruins of the "model farm" at Stove</figcaption></figure> <p>In March 1633, Marion Richart or Layland of Sanday was accused of witchcraft. Her grandson James Fisher said he had seen her and Catrine Miller at an empty house called the House of Howing Greenay, sitting beside the devil in the likeness of a "black man". Other witnesses declared she had charmed a fisherman's bait with the paws of her cat, healed a sick woman with a charm, and charmed milk from cows on Stronsay. She was tried at Kirkwall, found guilty, strangled and burnt.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> Writing in the early 18th century, the Rev. John Brand described island life thus: </p><blockquote><p>"Both Men and Women are fashionable in their cloths, no Men here use Plaids, as they do in our Highlands; In the North Isles of Sanda Westra &c. Many of the Countrey People wear a piece of a Skin, as of a Scale, comonly called a Selch, Calf or the lik. for Shoes, which they fasten to their Feet with stringes or thongs of Leather. Their Houses are in good order, and well furnished, according to their qualities. They generally speak English."<sup id="cite_ref-Brand_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brand-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sanday_Light_Railway_-_geograph.org.uk_-_86228.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Sanday_Light_Railway_-_geograph.org.uk_-_86228.jpg/220px-Sanday_Light_Railway_-_geograph.org.uk_-_86228.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="152" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Sanday_Light_Railway_-_geograph.org.uk_-_86228.jpg/330px-Sanday_Light_Railway_-_geograph.org.uk_-_86228.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Sanday_Light_Railway_-_geograph.org.uk_-_86228.jpg/440px-Sanday_Light_Railway_-_geograph.org.uk_-_86228.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="441" /></a><figcaption>The now defunct <a href="/wiki/Sanday_Light_Railway" title="Sanday Light Railway">Sanday Light Railway</a></figcaption></figure> <p>As part of the agricultural improvement movement of the 19th century the brothers Malcolm and Samuel Laing created a "New Model Farm" near the Loth ferry terminal at the south end of the island. They introduced <a href="/wiki/Merino" title="Merino">merino</a> sheep, and the ruins of the steam engine house and the red-brick chimney and boiler house are still visible. Although such innovations brought increased productivity and were widely copied in Orkney they also impoverished the substantial population of landless <a href="/wiki/Cottar" class="mw-redirect" title="Cottar">cottars</a> who were increasingly marginalised.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Arch_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Arch-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During World War II, the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a> built a <a href="/wiki/Chain_Home" title="Chain Home">Chain Home</a> radar station at Whale Head near Lop Ness.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This necessitated the building of a large camp at Langamay to house the military personnel, which incorporated a cinema.<sup id="cite_ref-Arch_40-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Arch-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sanday also once boasted the most northerly passenger railway in the United Kingdom, a privately owned <a href="/wiki/Rideable_miniature_railway" class="mw-redirect" title="Rideable miniature railway">rideable miniature installation</a> near Braeswick, the <a href="/wiki/Sanday_Light_Railway" title="Sanday Light Railway">Sanday Light Railway</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In June 2009, 54 year old local resident Robert Rose was murdered by residents John Campbell and Stephen Crummack. The two men buried Rose's body in the sand dunes at Sty Wick on the south side of the island, and drove his car to Loth Pier, in an attempt to make residents believe that he left the island on the ferry.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After investigation, Campbell was found guilty of murder and Crummack was found guilty of culpable homicide, and the pair were sentenced to 16 years and 11 years respectively at the <a href="/wiki/Justiciary_Buildings,_Glasgow" title="Justiciary Buildings, Glasgow">Justiciary Buildings</a> in <a href="/wiki/Glasgow" title="Glasgow">Glasgow</a> in March 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Start_Point_Lighthouse">Start Point Lighthouse</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sanday,_Orkney&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Start Point Lighthouse"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Lighthouse</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn">Start Point Lighthouse<span class="qs" style="display: none;"> <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="https://quickstatements.toolforge.org/#/v1=Q17827973%7CP31%7CQ39715%7C%7CQ17827973%7CP625%7C@59.277431%2F-2.375906%7CS143%7CQ328%7C%7CQ17827973%7CP571%7C%2B1806-00-00T00%3A00%3A00Z%2F9%7CS143%7CQ328%7C%7CQ17827973%7CP729%7C%2B1870-00-00T00%3A00%3A00Z%2F9%7CS143%7CQ328%7C%7CQ17827973%7CP793%7CQ24410992%7CP585%7C%2B1962-00-00T00%3A00%3A00Z%2F9%7CS143%7CQ328%7C%7CQ17827973%7CP2048%7C25U11573%7CS143%7CQ328%7C%7CQ17827973%7CP2923%7C24U11573%7CS143%7CQ328%7C%7CQ17827973%7CP2929%7C24U93318%7CS143%7CQ328%7C%7CQ17827973%7CP1030%7C%22Fl%20%282%29%20W%2020s.%22%7CS143%7CQ328%7C%7CQ17827973%7CP18%7C%22Start%20Point%20light.jpg%22%7CS143%7CQ328%7CP2096%7Cen%3A%22Start%20Point%20Lighthouse%20in%202007%22"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Commons_to_Wikidata_QuickStatements.svg/20px-Commons_to_Wikidata_QuickStatements.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Commons_to_Wikidata_QuickStatements.svg/30px-Commons_to_Wikidata_QuickStatements.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Commons_to_Wikidata_QuickStatements.svg/40px-Commons_to_Wikidata_QuickStatements.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="512" /></a></span></span></caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Start_Point_light.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Start_Point_light.jpg/220px-Start_Point_light.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="329" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Start_Point_light.jpg/330px-Start_Point_light.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Start_Point_light.jpg 2x" data-file-width="425" data-file-height="636" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Start Point Lighthouse in 2007</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a class="mw-kartographer-map notheme mw-kartographer-container center" style="width: 270px; height: 200px;" data-mw-kartographer="mapframe" data-style="osm-intl" data-width="270" data-height="200" data-zoom="5" data-lat="59.277431" data-lon="-2.375906" data-overlays="["_82c3c8d280be7655a0f0fca414782d99a2f52197"]" href="/wiki/Special:Map/5/59.277431/-2.375906/en"><img src="https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,5,59.277431,-2.375906,270x200.png?lang=en&domain=en.wikipedia.org&title=Sanday%2C_Orkney&revid=1256406344&groups=_82c3c8d280be7655a0f0fca414782d99a2f52197" width="270" height="200" decoding="async" srcset="https://maps.wikimedia.org/img/osm-intl,5,59.277431,-2.375906,270x200@2x.png?lang=en&domain=en.wikipedia.org&title=Sanday%2C_Orkney&revid=1256406344&groups=_82c3c8d280be7655a0f0fca414782d99a2f52197 2x" alt="Map" /></a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Location</th><td class="infobox-data label">Start Point<br />Sanday<br /><a href="/wiki/Orkney" title="Orkney">Orkney</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a><br /><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/British_national_grid_reference_system" class="mw-redirect" title="British national grid reference system">OS grid</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion" style="white-space: nowrap"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Sanday,_Orkney&params=59.277426_N_2.375916_W_region:GB_scale:25000">HY7867643497</a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system" title="Geographic coordinate system">Coordinates</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Sanday,_Orkney&params=59.277431_N_2.375906_W_"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">59°16′39″N</span> <span class="longitude">2°22′33″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">59.277431°N 2.375906°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">59.277431; -2.375906</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr style="background:#b9deed;"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Tower</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Constructed</th><td class="infobox-data">1806 (first)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Built by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Stevenson_(civil_engineer)" title="Robert Stevenson (civil engineer)">Robert Stevenson</a> <span class="penicon autoconfirmed-show"><span class="mw-valign-text-top" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17827973?uselang=en#P631" title="Edit this on Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this on Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Construction</th><td class="infobox-data">stone tower</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Automated</th><td class="infobox-data">1962</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Height</th><td class="infobox-data">25 metres (82 ft)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Shape</th><td class="infobox-data">cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Markings</th><td class="infobox-data note">white and black vertical stripes tower, black lantern, ochre trim</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Power source</th><td class="infobox-data">solar power <span class="penicon autoconfirmed-show"><span class="mw-valign-text-top" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17827973?uselang=en#P618" title="Edit this on Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this on Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Operator</th><td class="infobox-data">Northern Lighthouse Board<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Heritage</th><td class="infobox-data">category B listed building <span class="penicon autoconfirmed-show"><span class="mw-valign-text-top" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17827973?uselang=en#P1435" title="Edit this on Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this on Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></span></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr style="background:#FAF884;"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Light</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">First lit</th><td class="infobox-data note">1870 (current)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Focal height</th><td class="infobox-data">24 metres (79 ft)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Range</th><td class="infobox-data">24 nautical miles (44 km; 28 mi)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Light_characteristic" title="Light characteristic">Characteristic</a></th><td class="infobox-data note">Fl (2) W 20s.</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Start Point Lighthouse</b> stands on the neighbouring <a href="/wiki/Tidal_island" title="Tidal island">tidal island</a> of <b>Start Point</b>, locally known as <b>Start Island</b>. The lighthouse was completed on 2 October 1806 by engineer <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Smith_(engineer)" title="Thomas Smith (engineer)">Thomas Smith</a>. It was the first Scottish lighthouse to have a clockwork-driven revolving parabolic reflector creating a sweeping beam. The reflector was later replaced by a Fresnel lens. In 1870 the lighthouse was rebuilt. Since 1915, it has been painted by distinctive black and white vertical stripes which are unique in Scotland. The light was automated in 1962 and is powered by a bank of 36 solar panels.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Despite the presence of the lighthouse, <a href="/wiki/HMS_Goldfinch_(1910)" title="HMS Goldfinch (1910)">HMS <i>Goldfinch</i></a> was wrecked in fog on Start Point in 1915.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Current_island_activities">Current island activities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sanday,_Orkney&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Current island activities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sanday boasts two golf courses: a 9-hole links course of 2,600 yards run by Sanday Golf Club and the one-hole meadowland "Peedie Golf Course" of 57 yards (52.1 m) (believed to be Scotland's shortest) at West Manse.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2004, three wind turbines with an installed capacity of 8.25 Megawatts were erected by <a href="/wiki/Scottish_and_Southern_Energy" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish and Southern Energy">Scottish and Southern Energy</a> (SSE) at Spurness.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sanday Community Council successfully negotiated a wind farm community fund with SSE which will be benefitting the people of the island for the lifetime of the turbines, anticipated to be 20 to 25 years.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 2012, these wind turbines were replaced by 5 newer ones by Scottish and Southern Energy. This installation also generates income intended to benefit the people in Sanday, on the one hand via grants distributed by the Sanday Community Council and on the other by financing the Sanday Development Trust. </p><p>In 1996, the Sanday Development Group was formed to promote tourism. This group became Sanday <a href="/wiki/Development_trust" title="Development trust">Development Trust</a> in 2004, which has a vision to: </p> <blockquote><p>Create an economically prosperous, sustainable community that is connected with the wider world, but remains a safe, clean environment, where we are proud to live, able to work, to bring up and educate our children, to fulfill our own hopes and ambitions, and to grow old gracefully, enjoying a quality of life that is second to none.</p></blockquote> <p>Projects include the establishment of a sports hall and youth centre, the creation of a local sound archive, and until February 2020, a Countryside Ranger service.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SandayTartan.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/SandayTartan.gif/220px-SandayTartan.gif" decoding="async" width="220" height="164" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/SandayTartan.gif/330px-SandayTartan.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/SandayTartan.gif/440px-SandayTartan.gif 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="598" /></a><figcaption>Sanday Tartan</figcaption></figure> <p>A district tartan has been designed for Sanday by one of the island's residents, although it has not yet been officially adopted by the island authorities. It represents the sea, the distinctive sandy beaches and green meadows of the island, and the vertical stripes of Start Point lighthouse.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In July 2008 a concert held on the island was the culmination of an innovative musical project. The main aim of project was to set up a music-teacher training programme that would provide additional music tuition in the school and throughout the community.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A shop where islanders can sell craft products has existed since 2016. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Folklore">Folklore</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sanday,_Orkney&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Folklore"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There is a legend that a Sanday girl was once sold a book called <i>The Book of Black Art</i> by a witch, and that the Devil would claim the soul of anyone who still owned the book at their death. This book was only able to be passed on by selling it. A local clergyman (<a href="/wiki/Matthew_Armour" title="Matthew Armour">Matthew Armour</a>) took it off her hands and he managed to get rid of it by means not described in the tradition before his death in 1903.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the ruined Kirk of Lady, near Overbister, are the "Devil's Clawmarks": incised parallel grooves in the parapet of the kirk.<sup id="cite_ref-Arch_40-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Arch-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="People_associated_with_Sanday">People associated with Sanday</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sanday,_Orkney&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: People associated with Sanday"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:West_Manse_Sanday.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/West_Manse_Sanday.jpg/220px-West_Manse_Sanday.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/West_Manse_Sanday.jpg/330px-West_Manse_Sanday.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/West_Manse_Sanday.jpg/440px-West_Manse_Sanday.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1760" data-file-height="1168" /></a><figcaption>Sanday's West Manse</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Armour" title="Matthew Armour">Matthew Armour</a> (1820–1903), born in Paisley, Sanday's radical <a href="/wiki/Free_Church_of_Scotland_(1843-1900)" class="mw-redirect" title="Free Church of Scotland (1843-1900)">Free Kirk</a> <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_religion" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of religion">Minister</a> who lived at The West Manse (formerly the <a href="/wiki/Free_Church_of_Scotland_(1843-1900)" class="mw-redirect" title="Free Church of Scotland (1843-1900)">Free Church of Scotland</a> <a href="/wiki/Manse" title="Manse">manse</a>) for over half a century</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stuart_Christie" title="Stuart Christie">Stuart Christie</a> (1946-2020), Glasgow Anarchist, who ran the radical publishing house <a href="/wiki/Cienfuegos_Press" class="mw-redirect" title="Cienfuegos Press">Cienfuegos Press</a> from here during the late 1970s.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Towrie_Cutt" title="William Towrie Cutt">William Towrie Cutt</a> (1898–1981), author born on Sanday, lived in Kettletoft</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Maxwell_Davies" title="Peter Maxwell Davies">Peter Maxwell Davies</a> (1934–2016), former <a href="/wiki/Master_of_the_Queen%27s_Music" class="mw-redirect" title="Master of the Queen's Music">Master of the Queen's Music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Traill_Dennison" title="Walter Traill Dennison">Walter Traill Dennison</a> (1826–1894), <a href="/wiki/Orkney_Islands#Orcadians" class="mw-redirect" title="Orkney Islands">Orcadian</a> <a href="/wiki/Folklorist" class="mw-redirect" title="Folklorist">folklorist</a> born on Sanday at North Myre, living most of his life at West Brough.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Ivan Drever; born at Whip and grew up at East Thrave</li> <li>Rev <a href="/wiki/Robert_Howie_Fisher" title="Robert Howie Fisher">Robert Howie Fisher</a> (1861-1934) eminent Edinburgh minister, <a href="/wiki/Dean_of_the_Chapel_Royal" title="Dean of the Chapel Royal">Dean of the Chapel Royal</a> and Chaplain in Ordinary to King George V</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Harvey_(footballer)" title="David Harvey (footballer)">David Harvey</a> (b. 1948), former <a href="/wiki/Leeds_United_F.C." title="Leeds United F.C.">Leeds United</a> and <a href="/wiki/Scotland_men%27s_national_football_team" class="mw-redirect" title="Scotland men's national football team">Scotland</a> <a href="/wiki/Goalkeeper_(association_football)" title="Goalkeeper (association football)">goalkeeper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Hayes" title="Geoffrey Hayes">Geoffrey Hayes</a>, actor and children's TV presenter, had a holiday cottage here in the early 1980s</li> <li>George Faulknor Francis Horwood (1838–1897), <a href="/wiki/Deputy_Lieutenant" class="mw-redirect" title="Deputy Lieutenant">Deputy Lieutenant</a> of Orkney (and youngest son of Edward Horwood, of <a href="/wiki/Weston_Turville" title="Weston Turville">Weston Turville</a>, <a href="/wiki/Buckinghamshire" title="Buckinghamshire">Buckinghamshire</a>) who lived at Scar House.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liam_McArthur" title="Liam McArthur">Liam McArthur</a> MSP for Orkney</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_D_Mackay" class="mw-redirect" title="John D Mackay">John D Mackay</a> (b. 1909), Headmaster of Sanday School from 1946 to 1970</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Sichel" title="William Sichel">William Sichel</a> (b. 1953). International ultra distance runner; World No.1 for the Six Day event in 2006; has represented Great Britain eleven times since 1996.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sanday,_Orkney&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_lighthouses_in_Scotland" title="List of lighthouses in Scotland">List of lighthouses in Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Northern_Lighthouse_Board_lighthouses" title="List of Northern Lighthouse Board lighthouses">List of Northern Lighthouse Board lighthouses</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sanday,_Orkney&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit 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Retrieved 15 November 2014.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Anderson-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Anderson_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Anderson_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Anderson (1873) p. 176.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Smith392-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Smith392_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Smith392_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Smith392_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Smith392_4-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Smith392_4-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Smith392_4-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Haswell-Smith (2004) p. 392</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-OS-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-OS_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-OS_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFOrdnance_Survey" class="citation map cs1"><a href="/wiki/Ordnance_Survey" title="Ordnance Survey">Ordnance Survey</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/shop/os-maps-online.html"><i>OS Maps Online</i></a> (Map). 1:25,000. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">21 August</span> 2013</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=OS+Maps+Online&rft.series=Leisure&rft.au=Ordnance+Survey&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ordnancesurvey.co.uk%2Fshop%2Fos-maps-online.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASanday%2C+Orkney" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-RankNote-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-RankNote_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-RankNote_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Area and population ranks: there are <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 300</span> islands over 20 ha in extent and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Scottish_Islands/Populated_Islands#Inhabited_islands" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Scottish Islands/Populated Islands">93 permanently inhabited islands</a> were listed in the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom_census,_2011" class="mw-redirect" title="United Kingdom census, 2011">2011 census</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-NRS-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-NRS_7-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NRS_7-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNational_Records_of_Scotland2013" class="citation report cs1"><a href="/wiki/National_Records_of_Scotland" title="National Records of Scotland">National Records of Scotland</a> (15 August 2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/documents/censusresults/release1c/rel1c2sb.pdf">"Appendix 2: Population and households on Scotland's Inhabited Islands"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/en/censusresults/bulletin.html">Statistical Bulletin: 2011 Census: First Results on Population and Household Estimates for Scotland Release 1C (Part Two)</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> (Report). 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Association">Orkney Amateur Football Association</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orkney_F.C." title="Orkney F.C.">Orkney F.C.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orkney_representative_football_team" title="Orkney representative football team">Orkney representative football team</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Islands_of_Scotland" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks 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colspan="2"><div id="Geography" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Geography</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Northern_Isles" title="Northern Isles">Northern Isles</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shetland" title="Shetland">Shetland</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Shetland_islands" title="List of Shetland islands">list</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orkney" title="Orkney">Orkney</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Orkney_islands" title="List of Orkney islands">list</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Hebrides" title="Hebrides">Hebrides</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Outer_Hebrides" title="Outer Hebrides">Outer Hebrides</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Outer_Hebrides" title="List of Outer Hebrides">list</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inner_Hebrides" title="Inner Hebrides">Inner Hebrides</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Inner_Hebrides" title="List of Inner Hebrides">list</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Kilda,_Scotland" title="St Kilda, Scotland">St Kilda</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Islands_of_the_Clyde" title="Islands of the Clyde">Islands of the Clyde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islands_of_the_Forth" title="Islands of the Forth">Islands of the 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Boreray_and_the_Stacs.jpg/120px-Boreray_and_the_Stacs.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Boreray_and_the_Stacs.jpg/160px-Boreray_and_the_Stacs.jpg 2x" data-file-width="581" data-file-height="451" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Prehistory" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Prehistory</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Prehistoric_Orkney" title="Prehistoric Orkney">Prehistoric Orkney</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Heart_of_Neolithic_Orkney" title="Heart of Neolithic Orkney">Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site</a>:</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maeshowe" title="Maeshowe">Maeshowe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ness_of_Brodgar" title="Ness of Brodgar">Ness of Brodgar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ring_of_Brodgar" title="Ring of Brodgar">Ring of Brodgar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skara_Brae" title="Skara Brae">Skara Brae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Standing_Stones_of_Stenness" title="Standing Stones of Stenness">Standing Stones of Stenness</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Prehistoric_Shetland" title="Prehistoric Shetland">Prehistoric Shetland</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Zenith_of_Iron_Age_Shetland" title="Zenith of Iron Age Shetland">Zenith of Iron Age Shetland</a>:</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Broch_of_Mousa" title="Broch of Mousa">Broch of Mousa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jarlshof" title="Jarlshof">Jarlshof</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Old_Scatness" title="Old Scatness">Old Scatness</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Prehistoric Western Isles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Callanish_Stones" title="Callanish Stones">Callanish Stones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dun_Carloway" title="Dun Carloway">Dun Carloway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rubha_an_D%C3%B9nain" title="Rubha an Dùnain">Rubha an Dùnain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dun_Nosebridge" title="Dun Nosebridge">Dun Nosebridge</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="History" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">History</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/D%C3%A1l_Riata" title="Dál Riata">Dál Riata</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Columba" title="Columba">Columba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hinba" title="Hinba">Hinba</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_Isles" title="Kingdom of the Isles">Kingdom of the Isles</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Scandinavian_Scotland" title="Scandinavian Scotland">Scandinavian Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rulers_of_the_Kingdom_of_the_Isles" class="mw-redirect" title="Rulers of the Kingdom of the Isles">Rulers of the Kingdom of the Isles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_the_Isles" title="Bishop of the Isles">Bishop of the Isles</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Lord_of_the_Isles" title="Lord of the Isles">Lordship of the Isles</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Perth" title="Treaty of Perth">Treaty of Perth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Westminster_(1462)" title="Treaty of Westminster (1462)">Treaty of Ardtornish-Westminster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Finlaggan" title="Finlaggan">Finlaggan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Earl_of_Orkney" title="Earl of Orkney">Earldom of Orkney</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Buckquoy_spindle-whorl" title="Buckquoy spindle-whorl">Buckquoy spindle-whorl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Udal_law" title="Udal law">Udal law</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">18th and 19th Century</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Highland_Clearances" title="Highland Clearances">Clearances</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacobite_risings" class="mw-redirect" title="Jacobite risings">Jacobite risings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flora_MacDonald" title="Flora MacDonald">Flora MacDonald</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Literature</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Orkneyinga_saga" title="Orkneyinga saga">Orkneyinga Saga</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Description_of_the_Western_Isles_of_Scotland" title="Description of the Western Isles of Scotland">Description of the Western Isles of Scotland</a></i> (Monro)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Martin_Martin" title="Martin Martin">A Description of the Western Isles of Scotland</a></i> (Martin)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Journey_to_the_Western_Islands_of_Scotland" title="A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland">A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland</a></i> (Johnson)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Journal_of_a_Tour_to_the_Hebrides" title="The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides">The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides</a></i> (Boswell)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Etymology" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Etymology</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">General</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_island_names" title="Scottish island names">Scottish island names</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Isles#Island_names" title="Northern Isles">Northern Isles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hebrides#Etymology" title="Hebrides">Hebrides</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ainmean-%C3%80ite_na_h-Alba" title="Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba">Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Specific</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Isle_of_Arran#Etymology" title="Isle of Arran">Arran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gigha#Etymology" title="Gigha">Gigha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islay#Name" title="Islay">Islay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Etymology_of_Skye" title="Etymology of Skye">Skye</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Kilda,_Scotland#Origin_of_names" title="St Kilda, Scotland">St Kilda</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Economy" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Economy</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Towns</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kirkwall" title="Kirkwall">Kirkwall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lerwick" title="Lerwick">Lerwick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rothesay" title="Rothesay">Rothesay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stornoway" title="Stornoway">Stornoway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stromness" title="Stromness">Stromness</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Agencies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Community_Energy_Scotland" title="Community Energy Scotland">Community Energy Scotland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crofters_Commission" class="mw-redirect" title="Crofters Commission">Crofters Commission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Highlands_and_Islands_Enterprise" title="Highlands and Islands Enterprise">Highlands and Islands Enterprise</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Islands_Federation" title="Scottish Islands Federation">Scottish Islands Federation</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/North_Sea_oil" title="North Sea oil">Oil industry</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Flotta" title="Flotta">Flotta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sullom_Voe" title="Sullom Voe">Sullom Voe</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Culture" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Culture</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Shetland</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aly_Bain" title="Aly Bain">Aly Bain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Fraser_(singer)" title="Thomas Fraser (singer)">Thomas Fraser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peerie_Willie_Johnson" title="Peerie Willie Johnson">Peerie Willie Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shetland_Amenity_Trust" title="Shetland Amenity Trust">Shetland Amenity Trust</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Up_Helly_Aa" title="Up Helly Aa">Up Helly Aa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vagaland" title="Vagaland">Vagaland</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Orkney</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_Mackay_Brown" title="George Mackay Brown">George Mackay Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Maxwell_Davies" title="Peter Maxwell Davies">Peter Maxwell Davies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/F._Marian_McNeill" title="F. Marian McNeill">F. 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scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Inner Hebrides</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Islay_whisky" class="mw-redirect" title="Islay whisky">Islay whisky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Runrig" title="Runrig">Runrig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sorley_MacLean" title="Sorley MacLean">Sorley MacLean</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/West_Highland_Free_Press" title="West Highland Free Press">West Highland Free Press</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Politics" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 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class="mw-redirect" title="Turnberry lighthouse">Turnberry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Northern_Lighthouse_Board_lighthouses#Scotland_(except_principal_island_groups)" title="List of Northern Lighthouse Board lighthouses">Minor lights</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">The <a href="/wiki/Hebrides" title="Hebrides">Hebrides</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Barra_Head_Lighthouse" title="Barra Head Lighthouse">Barra Head</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Butt_of_Lewis_Lighthouse" title="Butt of Lewis Lighthouse">Butt of Lewis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dubh_Artach" title="Dubh Artach">Dubh Artach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eilean_Glas_Lighthouse" title="Eilean Glas Lighthouse">Eilean Glas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flannan_Isles_Lighthouse" title="Flannan Isles Lighthouse">Flannan Islands</a></li> <li><a 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