Hoy Island

Hoy is an island in Orkney, Scotland, measuring 143 square kilometres – the second largest in the archipelago, after Mainland. A natural causeway, the Ayre, links the island to the smaller South Walls; the two islands are treated as one entity by the UK census. Hoy is also the name of a hamlet in the northwest of the island.
  • Population: 419
  • Scottish Gaelic name: Hòigh
  • Scots name: Hoy
  • Old Norse name: Háey
  • Meaning of name: high island
  • OS grid reference: ND263961
  • Island group: Orkney

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