Helliar Holm Explained
| Location Map: | Scotland Orkney |
| Coordinates: | 59.023°N -2.901°W |
| Gridreference: | HY484153 |
| Population: | 0 |
| Local Authority: | Orkney Islands |
| Module: | | Embed: | yes | | Qid: | Q106088273 | | Location: | Helliar Holm
Orkney
Scotland
United Kingdom | | Automated: | 1967 | | Construction: | stone tower | | Shape: | cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern | | Marking: | white tower, black lantern, ochre trim | | Range: | white:
red: [1] | | Managingagent: | Northern Lighthouse Board[2] |
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Helliar Holm is an uninhabited island off the coast of Shapinsay in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. It is home to a 42adj=midNaNadj=mid lighthouse, which was built in 1893 and automated in 1967.[3] It is a tidal island that used to be connected to Shapinsay. It is still possible to walk across from the mainland during very low tides.
The island also has the ruins of a broch, cairn and chapel.[4]
In the Orkneyinga Saga it is referred to as both "Hellisey" and "Eller Holm" [5] and John of Fordun refers to it as "Helene-holm"
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59.0231°N -2.9014°W
Notes and References
- http://www.lighthousedigest.com/Digest/database/uniquelighthouse.cfm?value=1901 Helliar Holm Light
- 2016-05-27.
- Web site: Lighthouse Explorer database . 14 August 2007 . 13 February 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060213052604/http://www.lighthousedepot.com/database/uniquelighthouse.cfm?value=1901 . dead .
- Haswell-Smith, Hamish. (2004) The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh. Canongate.
- Anderson, Joseph (Ed.) (1893) Orkneyinga Saga. Translated by Jón A. Hjaltalin & Gilbert Goudie. Edinburgh. James Thin and Mercat Press (1990 reprint).
