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Puffin Island is the ninth-largest island off the coast of Wales and marks the northeastern end of the Menai Strait. Puffin Island's highest point is carboniferous limestone, at 192 feet (59 m) above sea level, having steep cliffs on all sides. It has an area of 69 acres (0.28 km 2). The island is privately owned by the Baron Hill estate.
Osea Island (Old English: Ōsgȳþes īeg, "Osyth's island"), formerly also Osey, [1] is an inhabited island in the estuary of the River Blackwater, Essex, East England.It is approximately 380 acres (150 hectares) in size and is connected to the north bank of the river by a causeway that is covered at high water.
This is a list of islands of England ... Osea Island: Essex: Outer Trial Bank: ... Potton Island: Essex: Puffin Island: Isles of Scilly:
The name of the English island Lundy is believed to come from the old Norse word for "puffin island" (Lundey), [32] although an alternative explanation has been suggested with Lund referring to a copse, or wooded area. [33] The Atlantic puffin is the provincial bird of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Trwyn Du Lighthouse, also known as Penmon Lighthouse, [3] is a lighthouse between Black Point near Penmon and Ynys Seiriol, or Puffin Island, at the eastern extremity of Anglesey, marking the passage between the two islands.
National Trust rangers carried out the first full count of the seabird species since 2019 after the pandemic and bird flu disrupted conservation work.
In the north of the island is Llyn Alaw, a reservoir with an area of 1.4 square miles (4 km 2). Holy Island has a similar landscape, with a rugged north and west coast and beaches to the east and south. The county is surrounded by smaller islands; several, including South Stack and Puffin Island, are home to seabird
The Atlantic puffin, which feeds on small fish such as herring and hake, is listed as a vulnerable species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The birds can grow nearly a foot ...