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Sanda Island (Scottish Gaelic: Sandaigh) is a small island in the Firth of Clyde, off of Argyll and Bute, Scotland, near the southern tip of the Kintyre peninsula, near Southend and Dunaverty Castle. On clear days Sanda can be seen from the southern tip of the Kintyre peninsula, from the Isle of Arran and from northeast County Antrim .
Sanda Island (Scottish Gaelic: Sandaigh) off Kintyre; Sandray (Scottish Gaelic: Sanndraigh) in the Outer Hebrides; Handa Island (Scottish Gaelic: Eilean Shannda) off Sutherland; Sandoy, Faroe Islands; Sandøy, Norway; All pages with titles containing Sanday
Sheep Island is a small uninhabited island situated off the southern tip of the Kintyre peninsula in Scotland. Sheep Island, along with Sanda Island and Glunimore Island , form a small group of islands approximately three kilometres (two miles) south of Kintyre at grid reference NR733055 .
Glunimore Island is an uninhabited island around 3 miles (5 kilometres) southeast of the Kintyre peninsula, Scotland. [1] [2] It lies alongside Sanda Island and Sheep Island. The island is just 200 metres (660 ft) long and rises to a height of 27 metres (89 ft). There is a cave on the shoreline at the north.
Sanday (/ ˈ s æ n d iː /, Scots: Sandee) is one of the inhabited islands of Orkney that lies off the north coast of mainland Scotland.With an area of 50.43 km 2 (19.5 sq mi), [4] it is the third largest of the Orkney Islands. [9]
The island's name is of mixed Gaelic and Norse origin. The Norse name was Sandey meaning "sand isle" from Old Norse: sandr. [12] It was recorded in Joan Blaeu's 1654 Atlas of Scotland as "Ellan-Handey" [12] with the addition of the Gaelic Eilean (meaning simply "island") and the Norse form having become Handey and ultimately "Handa" due to aspiration in Gaelic. [13]
Sanda, the Brown Gargantua, featured in War of the Gargantuas (1966) Sanda (manga) , a 2021 manga series written and illustrated by Paru Itagaki Indian spiny-tailed lizard or sanda in Indic languages, a species of lizard renowned as a source of aphrodisiac
Glensanda from Glas Dhruim on Lismore, with Loch Linnhe in the foreground, looking WSW.. Glensanda (Old Norse, the glen of the sandy river) was a Viking settlement at the mouth of Glen Sanda [1] on the Morvern peninsula within south west Lochaber, overlooking the island of Lismore and Loch Linnhe in the western Highlands of Scotland.