Swona
Sign in to saveSwona is an uninhabited privately owned island in the Pentland Firth off the north coast of Scotland. It has a herd of feral cattle resulting from the abandonment of stock in 1974.
Key facts
- Scottish island.Image
- Swona Wikipedia.JPG
- Scottish island.ImageCaption
- Swona, viewed from South Ronaldsay
- Scottish island.location_map
- Scotland Orkney
- Scottish island.caption
- Swona shown within Orkney
- Scottish island.GridReference
- ND387844
- Scottish island.norse name
- Svíney; Swefney
- Scottish island.meaning of name
- Sweyn's Island; Pig/whale island
- Scottish island.area rank
- 153
- Scottish island.highest elevation
- Warbister Hill
- Scottish island.Population
- 0
- Scottish island.island group
- Orkney
- Scottish island.local authority
- Orkney Islands
- Lighthouse.embed
- yes
- Lighthouse.qid
- Q29514969
- Lighthouse.image
- Beacon on The Tarf, Swona - geograph.org.uk - 1234096.jpg
- Lighthouse.caption
- The beacon on The Tarf, Swona
- Lighthouse.location
- SwonaPentland FirthOrkneyScotlandUnited Kingdom
- Lighthouse.yearbuilt
- 1906 (first)
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- History
- Wildlife
- Birds
- See also
- Footnotes
- Bibliography
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Swona is an uninhabited privately owned island in the Pentland Firth off the north coast of Scotland. It has a herd of feral cattle resulting from the abandonment of stock in 1974.
==Geography and geology== left|thumb|Approaching the north head of Swona. Several houses can clearly be seen. Swona is the more northerly of two islands in the Pentland Firth between the Orkney Islands and Caithness on the Scottish mainland. It lies in the southern approach to Scapa Flow, west of South Ronaldsay.