Rysa Little

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Rysa Little
Location
Rysa Little (Scotland)
Rysa Little
Rysa Little
Rysa Little shown within Scotland.
OS grid reference: ND310976
Names
Gaelic name:
Meaning of name: Old Norse and English meaning 'little heap of stones'.
Area and Summit
Area: 32 ha
Highest elevation: 20 m
Population
Population (2001): 0


Groupings
Island Group: Orkney
Local Authority: Orkney Islands
Scotland
References: [1][2]
An abandoned House on Fara. Looking North: Rysa Little with Hoy behind to left; Graemsay with Mainland behind centre and right; Cava to right.
An abandoned House on Fara. Looking North: Rysa Little with Hoy behind to left; Graemsay with Mainland behind centre and right; Cava to right.

Rysa Little is an uninhabited island in the Orkney archipelago in Scotland. It is approximately 32 hectares in extent and rises to 20 metres (66 feet) above sea level.

It is situated in the Scapa Flow just offshore from the much larger island of Hoy and nearby is the islet of Cava. Between Rysa Little and Fara lies Gutter Sound, the scene of the mass-scuttling of the interned German Imperial High Seas Fleet in 1919.

Many of the smaller South Isles of Orkney lost their resident populations during the course of the twentieth century, but Rysa Little has not been inhabited since earlier times.[3]

[edit] See also

List of Orkney islands

[edit] References

  1. ^ Haswell-Smith, Hamish. (2004) The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh. Canongate.
  2. ^ Ordnance Survey
  3. ^ Wenham, Sheena, The South Isles in Omand, Donald (ed.) (2003) The Orkney Book. Edinburgh, Birlinn. Page 208.

Coordinates: 58°51′36″N 3°11′45″W / 58.86, -3.19583

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