Helliar Holm

Helliar Holm

The West Coast of Helliar Holm low tide on a rainy day and the wave-cut platform is exposed.
Location
Helliar Holm
Helliar Holm shown within Orkney
OS grid reference HY484153
Physical geography
Island group Orkney
Administration
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Country Scotland
Council area Orkney Islands
Demographics
Population 0
Helliar Holm Lighthouse
Saeva Ness

Saeva Ness lighthouse at the southern end of Helliar Holm
Orkney
Location Helliar Holm
Orkney
Scotland
United Kingdom
Coordinates 59°01′08″N 2°54′04″W / 59.018924°N 2.900980°W / 59.018924; -2.900980
Year first constructed 1893
Automated 1967
Construction stone tower
Tower shape cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern
Markings / pattern white tower, black lantern, ochre trim
Height 13 metres (43 ft)
Focal height 18 metres (59 ft)
Light source solar power
Range white: 14 nautical miles (26 km; 16 mi)
red: 10 nautical miles (19 km; 12 mi) [1]
Characteristic Fl WRG 10s.
Admiralty number 3684
NGA number 3236
ARLHS number SCO-094
Managing agent Northern Lighthouse Board[2]

Helliar Holm is an uninhabited island off the coast of Shapinsay in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. It is home to a 42-foot-tall (13 m) lighthouse, which was built in 1893 and automated in 1967.[3] It is a tidal island that used to be connected to Shapinsay. It is still possible to walk across from the mainland during very low tides.

The island also has the ruins of a broch, cairn and chapel.[4]

In the Orkneyinga Saga it is referred to as both "Hellisey" and "Eller Holm" [5] and John of Fordun refers to it as "Helene-holm"

See also

References

  1. Helliar Holm Light Lighthhouses Explorer. Retrieved 27 May 2016
  2. Helliar Holm The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 27 May 2016
  3. Lighthouse Explorer database
  4. Haswell-Smith, Hamish. (2004) The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh. Canongate.
  5. Anderson, Joseph (Ed.) (1893) Orkneyinga Saga. Translated by Jón A. Hjaltalin & Gilbert Goudie. Edinburgh. James Thin and Mercat Press (1990 reprint). ISBN 0-901824-25-9


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Coordinates: 59°01′23″N 02°54′05″W / 59.02306°N 2.90139°W / 59.02306; -2.90139


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