The Holm of Houton is one of the southern
Orkney islands.
Geography
The Holm is in
Midland Harbour, part of
Scapa Flow. It is south of the
Mainland
Mainland is defined as "relating to or forming the main part of a country or continent, not including the islands around it egardless of status under territorial jurisdiction by an entity" The term is often politically, economically and/or dem ...
parish of
Orphir
Orphir (pronounced , Old Norse: Jorfjara/OrfjaraPedersen, Roy (January 1992) ''Orkneyjar ok Katanes'' (map, Inverness, Nevis Print)) is a parish and settlement on Mainland, Orkney. It is approximately southwest of Kirkwall, and comprises a s ...
, near
Houton
Houton is a settlement southeast of Stromness on the island of Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. The settlement is within the parish of Orphir, and is situated on a minor road off the A964.
From here, a ferry sails to Lyness on Hoy, Longhope on ...
whence its name.
[Anderson, Joseph (Ed.) (1893) "Introduction to '' Orkneyinga saga''". Translated by Jón A. Hjaltalin & Gilbert Goudie. Edinburgh. James Thin and Mercat Press (1990 reprint). ]
The Holm is north of
Cava and
Rysa Little
Rysa Little, commonly referred to as Rysa, is an uninhabited island in the Orkney archipelago in Scotland. It is approximately in area, and rises to above sea level.
It is situated in the Scapa Flow just offshore from the much larger island ...
, and to the north east of
Hoy
Hoy ( sco, Hoy; from Norse , meaning "high island") is an island in Orkney, Scotland, measuring – the second largest in the archipelago, after Mainland. A natural causeway, ''the Ayre'', links the island to the smaller South Walls; the tw ...
over the Bring Deeps.
References
Uninhabited islands of Orkney
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