Ynys Bery is a small island south of

Ramsey Island Ramsey Island (Welsh: ''Ynys Dewi'') is an island about off St David's Head in Pembrokeshire on the northern side of St Brides Bay, in southwest Wales, in the community of St Davids and the Cathedral Close. It is in area. Ramsey means (in Old ...

, Pembrokeshire, Wales, in the

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of St David's and the Cathedral Close.

Etymology

The island's name in

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means ''

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's Island'', according to an 1852 book, but an earlier work of 1811 by

Richard Fenton Richard Fenton (January 1747 – November 1821) was a Welsh lawyer, topographer and poet. Biography Fenton was born in January 1747 in St David's, Pembrokeshire, and was baptised in St David's Cathedral on 20 February 1747, "being then a month ...

calls it ''the kite's island''.

History

Fenton, in 1811, describes the island, and its neighbour Ynys y Cantwr: In 1903, the S.S. ''Graffoe'' (a 2,996-ton steamship bound from

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to Montevideo with 3,800 tons of coal) struck Ramsey Island and sank at the northern end of Ynys Bery. The wreck lies at a depth of 15 metres, and is one of many Pembrokeshire wrecks popular with

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Geography

Ynys Bery's highest point is 71 metres (233 feet), the highest of Wales's islets.

Flora and fauna

Together with neighbouring Ynys Cantwr, Ynys Bery is a breeding ground for

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s. In the spring the island is covered with pale blue

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* * {{authority control Islands of Pembrokeshire Uninhabited islands of Wales