Foula
Location
OS grid reference:	HT960392
Names
Gaelic name:	Unknown
Norse name:	Fugløy
Meaning of name:	Old Norse for 'bird island'
Area and Summit
Area:	1,265 ha
Area rank (Scottish islands):	43
Highest elevation:	The Sneug 418 m
Population
Population (2001):	31
Population rank (inhabited Scottish islands):	59 out of 97
Main settlement:	Ham
Groupings
Island Group:	Shetland
Local Authority:	Shetland Islands
References:	[1][2][3]

Foula (Fugløy "fowl island") is Great Britain’s most remote permanently inhabited island, being one of the Shetland Islands, Scotland, and owned since the turn of the 20th century by the Holbourn family. The bleak and yet spectacular island lies on the same latitude as Saint Petersburg. Foula measures 2.5 miles by 3.5 miles, giving it an area of around nine square miles. Image File history File links Foula. ... The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ... // Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... Old Norse or Danish tongue is the Germanic language once spoken by the inhabitants of the Nordic countries (for instance during the Viking Age). ... Look up ham, Ham, HAM in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Mainland is the main island of Shetland, Scotland. ... For local government purposes, Scotland is divided into 32 areas designated as Council Areas of Scotland which are all governed by unitary authorities designated as Councils which have the option under the Local Government (Gaelic Names) (Scotland) Act 1997 (as chosen by Na h-Eileanan an Iar) of being known... Location Geography Area Ranked 12th  - Total 1,466 km²  - % Water  ? Admin HQ Lerwick ISO 3166-2 GB-ZET ONS code 00RD Demographics Population Ranked 31st  - Total (2005) 22,000  - Density 15 / km² Scottish Gaelic  - Total () {{{Scottish council Gaelic Speakers}}} Politics Shetland Islands Council http://www. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Scotland. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Location Geography Area Ranked 12th  - Total 1,466 km²  - % Water  ? Admin HQ Lerwick ISO 3166-2 GB-ZET ONS code 00RD Demographics Population Ranked 31st  - Total (2005) 22,000  - Density 15 / km² Scottish Gaelic  - Total () {{{Scottish council Gaelic Speakers}}} Politics Shetland Islands Council http://www. ... This article is about the country. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and...

Foula has a population of 26 people, and the nearest other settlement is fourteen miles across the Atlantic Ocean, making Foula the most remote of all the inhabited British Isles. The film The Edge of the World used Foula as its location. This article describes the archipelago in north-Western Europe. ... MacGinnis, Chrystall and Berry in The Edge of the World. ...

The island is known for its 370 metre-high (1200 feet) cliffs and its birds, including Arctic Terns, Red-throated Divers and Great Skuas. Simon Martin who stayed on the Isle of Foula for five years during his prolonged claim upon the wrecked Oceanic describes the island as such: Binomial name Sterna paradisaea Pontoppidan, 1763[2] Breeding grounds (red), wintering grounds (blue) and migration routes (green) The Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea) is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. ... Binomial name Gavia stellata (Pontopiddan, 1763) Gavia, meaning sea smew (although Divers are not Smew), stella meaning starred, in reference to the white speckling on its back in winter. ... Binomial name Brunnich, 1764 Wikispecies has information related to: Stercorarius skua The Great Skua, Stercorarius skua, is a large seabird in the skua family Stercorariidae. ...

"Foula, or Ultima Thule, as it was known as far back as the Roman times, rises impurely out of the water, and from the Shetland Isles mainland its five peaks, the Noup, Hamnafield, the Sneug, Kame and Soberlie stand out starkly and characteristically. The cliffs on the west side vie with those of St Kilda as the highest sheer cliffs in Britain, 1,200 foot of solid rock towering from the sea".

"Foula, or Fughley as it was once also known, means literally 'Bird Island', with an estimated half million birds of various breeds sharing the rock with the inhabitants. The island’s surface largely consisting of a peat bog on rock".

Cliffs on Foula.

Foula remained on the Julian calendar when the rest of the United Kingdom adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1752. Foula adhered to the Julian calendar by keeping 1800 as a leap year, but did not observe a leap year in 1900. As a result, Foula is now one day ahead of the Julian calendar and 12 days behind the Gregorian, observing Christmas Day on January 6 Gregorian and New Year on January 13 Gregorian.^[2][4] Thule as Tile on the Carta Marina by Olaus Magnus. ... Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew from a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula circa the 9th century BC to a massive empire straddling the Mediterranean Sea. ... St Kilda (Scottish Gaelic: ) is an isolated archipelago situated 64 kilometres (40 mi) west-northwest of North Uist in the North Atlantic Ocean. ... Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... The Julian calendar was introduced in 46 BC by Julius Caesar and came into force in 45 BC (709 ab urbe condita). ... The Gregorian calendar is the most widely used calendar in the world. ... 1752 was a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... // ON MAY 5 1853 MR.FADER HAD SEX WITH A MAN NAME MR WIEN THEN THEY HAD SON NAMEDMRS COTURE AND MR MANOOGIAN WENT INTO MRS HASKELLS OFFICE NAKED AND DANCED AROUND AND MASTERBATED ON HER CHEST AND SHE LICKED IT OFF THEN THEY HAD ORAL SEEX WITH NAPLOEAN OF... Äž: For the film, see: 1900 (film). ... Christmas is an annual holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus. ... is the 6th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... The New Year is an event that happens when a culture celebrates the end of one year and the beginning of the next year. ... January 13 is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...

The island was also one of the last places where Norn was used as a first language (although it is claimed that Walter Sutherland of Skaw on Unst was the last speaker), and the local dialect is strongly influence by Norse. The island was also the last place in Scotland where Udal Law was used. Norn is an extinct North Germanic language that was spoken on the Shetland Islands and Orkney Islands, off the coast of Scotland. ... “Native Language” redirects here. ... Walter Sutherland of Skaw on Unst in Shetland was reputedly the last native speaker of the Norn language [1]. He was supposed to live in the northernmost cottage in the UK. Categories: | | ... Skaw, in the Shetlands, is the northernmost settlement in the United Kingdom. ... Unst shown within Shetland Islands The worlds most comfortable bus shelter? Unst is one of the North Isles of the Shetland Islands, Scotland. ... A North Germanic language is any of several Germanic languages spoken in Scandinavia, parts of Finland and on the islands west of Scandinavia. ... Udal law is a near-defunct Norse derived legal system, which was formerly found in the Shetland islands and Orkney. ...

The last Laird of Foula, Professor Ian S. Holbourn, mentioned in his book on the Isle of Foula the disaster of the 25th August 1914, when RMS Oceanic collided with the Shaalds of Foula causing this great liner to become a wreck within two weeks. Holbourn's remarkable luck with steamship travel held through the following May, when he embarked upon the RMS Lusitania. John Ian Bernard Stoughton Holbourn (5 November 1872 - 15 September 1935) was laird of Foula, a professor and lecturer for the University of Oxford, and a writer. ... (Redirected from 25th August) August 25 is the 237th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (238th in leap years), with 129 days remaining. ... Year 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... The RMS Oceanic was a luxury ocean liner similar to the Aquitania, the Lusitania, the Britannic, the Mauritania, and the Titanic, but was considered to be in a class of its own. ... RMS Lusitania was a British luxury ocean liner owned by the Cunard Steamship Line Shipping Company and built by John Brown and Company of Clydebank, Scotland. ...

The Holbourns of Foula are descended from John of Westby (Westbie), Lincolnshire who was the father John of Westby, Churchwarden of that village. Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in the east of England. ... A Churchwarden is a lay official in a parish church of the Anglican Communion. ...

Lying as it does some fifteen miles west of the Shetland mainland, the island of Foula poses a major threat to shipping, as nearby is a hidden reef, the 'Hoevdi Grund' or the terrible 'Shaalds of Foula', a reef that comes to within a few feet of the surface, but which in calm weather gives no warning sign to the unwary mariner. The Shaalds lies just over two miles east of Foula between the island and the Shetland mainland. A lighthouse was built at the southern tip of the island in 1986 [1]. Originally powered by acetylene gas, it has been converted to solar and wind power. A HDR image of a traditional lighthouse For other uses, see Lighthouse (disambiguation). ... Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ... Acetylene (systematic name: ethyne) is the simplest alkyne hydrocarbon, consisting of two hydrogen atoms and two carbon atoms connected by a triple bond. ... Solar power describes a number of methods of harnessing energy from the light of the sun. ...

The Professor's grandson Robert Holbourn, otherwise qualified in Naval architecture (shipwright) acted as the island’s 'Peet Marshal' for many years. This valuable resource for heat and fuel has to be conserved. Peat cutting in Shetland requiring a certain skill, taking several years to master, resources are not available to be wasted. Those most able islanders become known as the 'Cutters' and in the spirit of a long standing Foula tradition all able-bodied men are now and then 'bid to the banks' of women who 'didn't have a cutter in the house.' Steamer New York in c. ... Men from Francisco de Orellanas expedition building a small brigantine, the San Pedro, to be used in the search for food Shipbuilding is the construction of ships. ... Peat in Lewis, Scotland Peat is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation matter. ...

The island's main industries are sheep farming and ornithological tourism. Australian Sheep Sheep husbandry is the raising and breeding of domestic sheep. ... Ornithology (from the Greek ornis = bird and logos = word/science) is the branch of zoology concerned with the scientific study of birds. ... “Tourist” redirects here. ...

Transport

Ferries from the island sail from the main settlement of Ham to Walls and Scalloway on the Shetland Mainland, and flights head from Foula's airstrip to Tingwall Airport. Walls is a settlement in the west of West Mainland, Shetland Islands. ... Scalloway is the largest settlement on Shetlands Atlantic coast and until 1708 was the capital of Shetland. ... Mainland is the main island of Shetland, Scotland. ... AirPort is a local area wireless networking brand from Apple Inc. ... Tingwall Airport (IATA: LWK, ICAO: EGET), also known as Lerwick/Tingwall Airport, is located in Gott, 4 nautical miles (7. ...

The Edge of the World

Michael Powell made The Edge of the World in 1937. This film is a dramatisation based on the true story of the evacuation of the last thirty-six inhabitants of the remote island of St Kilda on 29 August 1930. St Kilda lies in the Atlantic Ocean, 64 kilometres west-northwest of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides; the inhabitants spoke Gaelic. Powell was unable to get permission to film on St. Kilda. Undaunted, he made the film over four months during the summer of 1936 on the island of Foula, in the Shetland Isles. Despite the fact that the Foula islanders speak the Norse-tinged dialect of Shetland, the film loses none of its power. Michael Powell film-maker. ... MacGinnis, Chrystall and Berry in The Edge of the World. ... Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... St Kilda (Scottish Gaelic: ) is an isolated archipelago situated 64 kilometres (40 mi) west-northwest of North Uist in the North Atlantic Ocean. ... is the 241st day of the year (242nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Location of North Uist Landsat image of North Uist North Uist (Scottish Gaelic: Uibhist a Tuath) is an island of the Outer Hebrides. ... This article is about the Hebrides islands in Scotland. ... // Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Shetlandic is a dialect of Insular Scots, itself a dialect of the Scots language. ...

• The Edge of the World (1937) dramatises the evacuation of the Islands and the ensuing tragedy.
• Return To The Edge Of The World (1978) was a documentary capturing a reunion of cast and crew of 1937's The Edge Of The World, forty years after the fact, as they revisit the island.

MacGinnis, Chrystall and Berry in The Edge of the World. ... Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... MacGinnis, Chrystall and Berry in The Edge of the World. ... Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

References

1. ^ 2001 UK Census per List of islands of Scotland
2. ^ ^{a b} Haswell-Smith, Hamish. (2004) The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh. Canongate.
3. ^ Ordnance Survey
4. ^ Keay, J. & Keay, J. (1994) Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland. London. HarperCollins.

• Holbourn, Ian B. Stoughton (reprint 2001). The Isle of Foula: A Series of Articles on Britain's Loneliest Inhabited Isle. ISBN 1-84158-161-5. 

This is a list of the islands of Scotland, the mainland of which is part of the island of Great Britain, as well as a table of the largest Scottish islands. ... John Ian Bernard Stoughton Holbourn (5 November 1872 - 15 September 1935) was laird of Foula, a professor and lecturer for the University of Oxford, and a writer. ...

External Links

• Foula Heritage

Scotland | Shetland Islands
Inhabited islands: Mainland | Bressay | Burra | Fair Isle | Fetlar | Foula | Muckle Roe | Out Skerries | Papa Stour | Trondra | Unst | Vaila | Whalsay | Yell
Other islands: Mousa | Noss
Towns and villages: Lerwick | Aith | Baltasound | Brae | Grutness | Gutcher | Haroldswick | Scalloway | Symbister | Toft | Ulsta | Uyeasound | Vidlin |Walls
Extreme points: Hermaness | Sumburgh Head
Archaeological sites: Jarlshof, Mousa Broch

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