Gloup Holm is an islet in the Shetland Islands, lying to the north of Yell.
Gloup Holm is an islet in the Shetland Islands, lying to the north of Yell.
Gloup Holm is near to the part of Yell called North Neaps, near Gloup. [1] It has an area of 30.4 acres [2] or 12.3 hectares.
Rocks to the north include the Clapper and to the south-east is Eagle Stack. To the south west is Bagi Stack and to the west Whilkie Stack.
The island is owned by Robert Henderson, of neighbouring Cullivoe.
Gloup Holm derives its name from the village of Gloup and Gloup Voe on the "mainland" of Yell. These names derive from the Old Norse for a ravine. [1] Gloup Holm belonged to the ancient parish and current quoad sacra parish of North Yell.
Yell is one of the North Isles of Shetland, Scotland. In the 2011 census it had a usually resident population of 966. It is the second largest island in Shetland after the Mainland with an area of 82 square miles (212 km2), and is the third most populous in the archipelago, after the Mainland and Whalsay.
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Note: Gloup is common in Scottish placenames referring to a sea jet.
For other islands with similar names, see Linga (disambiguation)
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St Magnus Bay is a large coastal feature in the north-west of Mainland Shetland, Scotland. Roughly circular in shape with a diameter of about 19 kilometres (12 mi), it is open to the North Atlantic Ocean to the west. The indented coastline to the north, south and east between Esha Ness in the north and the Ness of Melby in the south contains numerous bays, firths and voes and there are several islands around the perimeter. The waters of the bay are up to 165 metres (541 ft) deep and may have been the site of a substantial meteor impact.
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Coordinates: 60°45′N1°07′W / 60.750°N 1.117°W
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