Vallay
Sign in to saveVallay () is an uninhabited tidal island in the Scottish Outer Hebrides. It can be reached from North Uist by a long beach at low tide.
Key facts
- Scottish island.location_map
- Scotland Outer Hebrides
- Scottish island.caption
- Vallay shown within the Outer Hebrides
- Scottish island.GridReference
- NF769763
- Scottish island.celtic name
- Bhàlaigh
- Scottish island.meaning of name
- hill island
- Scottish island.area rank
- 94
- Scottish island.Population
- 0
- Scottish island.island group
- Outer Hebrides
- Scottish island.local authority
- Comhairle nan Eilean Siar
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- tidal island
- Part of
- Outer Hebrides
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Outer Hebrides
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Body of water
- Atlantic Ocean
- Image
- Vallay Island from shore at low tide.jpg
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- Commons category
- Vallay
- heritage designation
- Site of Special Scientific Interest
- located in/on physical feature
- Outer Hebrides
- historic county
- Inverness-shire
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Vallay () is an uninhabited tidal island in the Scottish Outer Hebrides. It can be reached from North Uist by a long beach at low tide.
thumb|left|Southeast coast of Vallay seen from Solas. thumb|left|The abandoned mansion of Erskine Beveridge in July 2004 Once the island supported a population of nearly sixty people. Its best-known inhabitant was the archaeologist Erskine Beveridge. The island is also known for its sea birds and for prehistoric monuments.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vallay” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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