Corn Holm is a small tidal island in
Orkney
Orkney (; sco, Orkney; on, Orkneyjar; nrn, Orknøjar), also known as the Orkney Islands, is an archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland, situated off the north coast of the island of Great Britain. Orkney is 10 miles (16 km) north ...
, near
Copinsay
Copinsay ( non, Kolbeinsey) is one of the Orkney Islands in Scotland, lying off the east coast of the Orkney Mainland. The smaller companion island to Copinsay, Horse of Copinsay lies to the northeast. The Horse is uninhabited, and is managed a ...
to the west, off the north-eastern coast of
Scotland
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. There was once a small chapel there,
[Haswell-Smith, Hamish. (2004) ''The Scottish Islands''. Edinburgh. Canongate.] and it is covered in birdlife.
Geography and geology
Corn Holm is made up of red
sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks.
Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates) ...
.
[ At low tide it is connected to ]Black Holm
Black Holm is a small tidal island in the Orkney Islands, near Copinsay to the west of Corn Holm off the north-eastern coast of Scotland.
Geography and geology
Corn Holm is made up of red sandstone.
At low tide it is connected to Corn Holm
...
and Ward Holm
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, and is connected to Copinsay by a stretch called "Isle Rough". The sections north and south of Isle Rough are known as North and South Bay.
References
Islands of the Orkney Islands
Tidal islands of Scotland
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