Switha

Switha is a small island in Orkney, Scotland, south of Flotta, used for grazing sheep. There is no written record of the island ever being inhabited, but Neolithic standing stones and a cairn show that was at least visited in prehistoric times.

Switha has many storm-petrel burrows and is the winter home to a large colony of barnacle geese.

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