• Papa Stour is one of the Shetland Islands in Scotland, with a population of under fifteen people, some of whom immigrated after an appeal for residents...
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    Papa Stour Airstrip is a small airstrip in the village of Biggings on the island of Papa Stour. Shetland, Scotland. Papa Stour Airstrip opened in December...
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  • The Papa Stour Sword Dance, or Shetland Sword Dance, is a British linked sword dance involving seven dancers, who represent the Seven Champions of Christendom:...
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  • Living Museum, England East Stour (disambiguation) Papa Stour Stour Brook Stour Row Stour Valley (disambiguation) West Stour (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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  • (on Whalsay), Vidlin or Lerwick both on the Mainland. Papa Stour service to the Isle of Papa Stour from West Burrafirth on the Mainland. Whalsay service...
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    January Gregorian. The writer and journalist John Sands lived on Foula and Papa Stour for a while during the late 19th century. He fought hard against the prevailing...
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    and Whalsay, which lie to the east. East and West Burra, Muckle Roe, Papa Stour, Trondra, and Vaila are smaller islands to the west of Mainland. The other...
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  • tidal island off Papa, Shetland Papa Little Papa Stour (Great Papa) Sound of Papa, a strait between Papa Stour and the Sandness peninsula. Gaelic, Pabaigh...
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    Forewick Holm is a 1-hectare (2.5-acre) island in the Sound of Papa, between Papa Stour and the Mainland of Shetland. It lies adjacent to a skerry called...
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    group of seals resting in the Ve Skerries were ambushed and skinned by Papa Stour fishermen, but as these were actually seal-folk, the spilling of the blood...
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    Retta Skerries, Spoose Holm, Steggies. Papa; Hogg of Papa, Papa Skerry, Skerry of Bag, West Head of Papa. Papa Stour; Aesha Stack, Boinna Skerry, Borse Skerry...
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    This List of Bays of Shetland Islands summarises the bays that are located on the islands of the Shetland Islands in Scotland. The small island of Balta...
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    Buxton 1995, p. 79. "Papa Stour, Maiden Stack". Canmore. Retrieved 04 April 2024. Haswell-Smith 2004, pp. 451–52. "Papa Stour". Shetland Amenity Trust...
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  • 1840s. Its name means "little island of the papar" (as distinct from Papa Stour), who were Gaelic hermits or Culdees found as far north as Iceland. Elizabeth...
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    exceptionally large cave underlying the Fogla Skerry, an islet off the coast of Papa Stour, in the Shetland Islands. Though unsurveyed, estimates place it at almost...
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    a civil parish, which also included the island of Papa Stour some 1600 metres northwest across Papa Sound. In 1891, it was combined with Walls to the...
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  • Burra, in West Burra Hamnavoe, Eshaness, in Eshaness Hamnavoe, Papa Stour, in Papa Stour Hamnavoe, Lunna Ness, in Lunna Ness Hamnavoe, Yell, in Yell Hamnavoe...
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    Papa Stour with its outliers Brei Holm, Fogla Skerry and Maiden Stack. Forewick Holm, and Holm of Melby lie in the Sound of Papa that separates Papa Stour...
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    ferry operated by the SIC Ferries. She operates as the West Burrafirth to Papa Stour service. The ship was originally named MV Filla until 2003. Filla was...
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  • Ronaldsay Inverness Dundee Sumburgh Eday Edinburgh Fair Isle Islay Sanday Foula Papa Westray Glasgow Prestwick Kirkwall Stornoway Stronsay Tingwall Tiree Westray...
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  • Whalsay Yell Unst Fair Isle Fetlar Bressay East and West Burra Muckle Roe Papa Stour Trondra Out Skerries Mousa About 800 other islands Anglesey (the largest...
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    Biggings is a village on the island of Papa Stour, in Shetland, Scotland. Papa Stour's church is situated at the south of Biggings. A homestead of Duke...
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  • Just Prose (2003) The Nativity (2003) The Passion (2003) The Prisoner of Papa Stour (1996) BAFTA (1996, for Small Faces) Ian Charleson Commendation (1999...
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    dictionary. Crawford, Barbara E.; Smith, Beverley Ballin (1999). The Biggings, Papa Stour, Shetland: the history and excavation of a royal Norwegian farm. Edinburgh:...
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    Airport, Tingwall Airport, North Ronaldsay Airport, Oban Airport, Papa Stour Airstrip, Papa Westray Airport, Sanday Airport, Stornoway Airport, Stronsay Airport...
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    Walter Scott published a rhyme which had been used as a prelude to the Papa Stour Sword Dance, Shetland in around 1788. It features seven characters, Saint...
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    north of Brei Holm and east of Housa Voe about 140 metres (150 yd) off Papa Stour. Reaching 7.6 metres (25 ft) above sea level the stack is the highest...
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    group of low skerries (rocky islands) three miles (4.8 km) north west of Papa Stour, on the west coast of Shetland, Scotland. They define the southwest perimeter...
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  • England, Scotland and Scandinavia, and excavations and reconstructions on Papa Stour, working with Scottish, Polish and Scandinavian collaborators, as well...
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  • Argentina PSU WIOP Pangsuma Airport Putussibau, Indonesia PSV Papa Stour Airstrip Papa Stour, Scotland, United Kingdom PSW SNOS Passos Airport Passos, Minas...
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