Official website (http://www.hoyorkney.com/)
island in the Orkney Islands group, Scotland, UK
Key facts
- Scottish gaelic name
- Eilean Thothaigh
- Scots name
- Hoy
- Old norse name
- Háey
- Meaning of name
- high island
- Os grid reference
- ND263961
- Coordinates
- 58°50′N 3°18′W / 58.83°N 3.3°W / 58.83; -3.3
- Island group
- Orkney
- Area
- 14,318 ha (55.28 sq mi)
- Highest elevation
- Ward Hill , 481 m (1,578 ft)
- Council area
- Orkney Islands
- Country
- Scotland
- Sovereign state
- United Kingdom
- Population density
- 2.7/km (7.0/sq mi)
- Largest settlement
- Lyness
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Part of
- Orkney Islands
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Capital
- Lyness
- Population
- 419
- Area
- 143.18
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Body of water
- Atlantic Ocean
- Highest point
- Ward Hill
- Official website
- www.hoyorkney.com
- Image
- Hoy Orkney Landesinnere.JPG
- Width
- 9
- Length
- 20
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- native label
- Hoy
- Commons category
- Hoy
- located in/on physical feature
- North Sea
- heritage designation
- Site of Special Scientific Interest
- present in work
- Hjaðningavíg
- historic county
- Orkney Islands
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Hoy (from Old Norse Háey, meaning "high island") is an island in Orkney, Scotland, measuring 143 square kilometres (55 sq mi) – the second largest in the archipelago, after Mainland. A natural causeway, the Ayre, links the island to the smaller South Walls; the two islands are treated as one entity by the UK census. Hoy is also the name of a hamlet in the northwest of the island.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hoy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations