Foula
Sign in to saveFoula ( ), located in the Shetland archipelago of Scotland, is one of the United Kingdom's most remote permanently inhabited islands. The liner RMS Oceanic was wrecked on the Shaalds of Foula in 1914. Foula was the location for the film The Edge of the World (1937).
Key facts
- Scottish island.GridReference
- HT960392
- Scottish island.location_map
- Scotland Shetland
- Scottish island.caption
- Foula shown within Shetland
- Scottish island.celtic name
- Fughlaigh
- Scottish island.scots name
- Foula
- Scottish island.norse name
- Fuglaey
- Scottish island.Image
- The Voe, Foula - geograph.org.uk - 1712511.jpg
- Scottish island.ImageCaption
- Da Voe, the harbour of Foula
- Scottish island.area rank
- 43
- Scottish island.highest elevation
- The Sneug
- Scottish island.Population
- 17
- Scottish island.population density
- 1.34 people/km2
- Scottish island.population rank
- 62=
- Scottish island.main settlement
- Ham
- Scottish island.island group
- Shetland
- Scottish island.local authority
- Shetland Islands
- Lighthouse.embed
- yes
- Lighthouse.qid
- Q28874338
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Article
19 sectionsContents
- Toponym
- Geography
- Transport
- Wildlife
- History
- Prehistory
- 15th to 19th centuries
- 20th century
- Culture and the arts
- Religion
- Film
- Folklore, festivities and traditions
- Poetry
- Geodesy
- Notable residents
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Foula ( ), located in the Shetland archipelago of Scotland, is one of the United Kingdom's most remote permanently inhabited islands. The liner RMS Oceanic was wrecked on the Shaalds of Foula in 1914. Foula was the location for the film The Edge of the World (1937).
==Toponym== The name "Foula" comes from the Old Norse Fugley 'bird island'. On some early Modern maps (such as Willem Blaeu's 1654 map of Orkney and Shetland), it is called Fule or Thule. The former – pronounced "foo-lay"– is just an alternative spelling of Foula. The latter is due to ancient sources – notably Tacitus' Agricola – often locating the mythical land of Thule in the Shetland Islands region, and the phonetic closeness of the island's name. However, the Ancient Norse name post-dates the Thule narrative and is not connected to it.