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Hoy (from Old Norse Háey, meaning "high island") [8] 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.
The Old Man of Hoy is a 449-foot (137-metre) sea stack on Hoy, part of the Orkney archipelago off the north coast of Scotland. Formed from Old Red Sandstone, it is one of the tallest stacks in the United Kingdom. The Old Man is popular with climbers, and was first climbed in 1966.
Hoy (Lake Constance), an uninhabited island in Lake Constance, Germany; Hoy, Orkney, an island in Orkney, Scotland Hoy (hamlet), a location on the Orkney island of the same name; Hoy, Shetland, a small island in the Shetland Islands, Scotland; Hoy Sound, north of the island of Hoy, Orkney; Hoy, West Virginia, United States, an unincorporated ...
Hoy and West Mainland is a national scenic area (NSA) covering parts of the islands of Hoy and Mainland in the Orkney Islands of Scotland, as well as parts of the surrounding sea. [2] It is one of 40 such areas in Scotland, which are defined so as to identify areas of exceptional scenery and to ensure its protection by restricting certain forms ...
The Dwarfie Stane is a megalithic chambered tomb carved out of a titanic block of Devonian Old Red Sandstone located in a steep-sided glaciated valley between the settlements of Quoys and Rackwick on Hoy, an island in Orkney, Scotland. [1] The stone is a glacial erratic located in desolate peatland. [2] The site is managed by Historic ...
Ward Hill is a hill on the island of Hoy in Orkney, Scotland.It lies at the north of the island between Moaness and Rackwick, and is the highest point in both Orkney and the Scottish Northern Isles at an elevation of 481 m (1,578 ft).
Decades of rusted bolts, old safety ropes and rotting pegs left by climbers are to be removed from Orkney's Old Man of Hoy. Mountaineering Scotland has said it wants to remove the rubbish and ...
Hoy, Bu Of Hoy, Including Ancillary Buildings And Boundary Walls 58°55′23″N 3°19′41″W / 58.923129°N 3.328087°W / 58.923129; -3.328087 ( Hoy, Bu Of Hoy, Including Ancillary Buildings And Boundary