• Thumbnail for Vatersay
    The island of Vatersay (/ˈvætərseɪ/; Scottish Gaelic: Bhatarsaigh) is the southernmost and westernmost inhabited island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland...
    9 KB (1,064 words) - 08:43, 30 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Barra
    inhabited island there, after the adjacent island of Vatersay to which it is connected by the Vatersay Causeway. The island is named after Saint Finbarr...
    41 KB (4,878 words) - 18:28, 31 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vatersay Causeway
    The Vatersay Causeway (Scottish Gaelic: Rathad Bhàgh Bhatarsaigh) is a 250-metre-long causeway that links the Scottish Hebridean Islands of Vatersay and...
    13 KB (1,245 words) - 08:26, 13 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Outer Hebrides
    Fraoch-Eilean and the southern Grimsay to Benbecula; and the Vatersay Causeway linking Vatersay to Barra. This means that all the inhabited islands are now...
    94 KB (9,975 words) - 09:44, 23 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for UTC−01:00
    portion of the Outer Hebrides, in the west of Scotland; for instance, Vatersay, an inhabited island and the westernmost settlement of Great Britain, lies...
    4 KB (328 words) - 11:30, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for UTC+00:00
    portion of the Outer Hebrides, in the west of Scotland; for instance, Vatersay, an inhabited island and the westernmost settlement of Great Britain, lies...
    12 KB (1,250 words) - 08:57, 22 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Caolas
    An Caolas [ən̪ˠ ˈkʰɯːl̪ˠəs̪]), is a small settlement on the island of Vatersay, in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Caolas is within the parish of Barra...
    3 KB (119 words) - 22:37, 30 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of islands of Scotland
    Eriskay Grimsay North Uist South Uist Vatersay, which is connected to Barra (but not to the above islands), by the Vatersay Causeway. To the north, Scalpay...
    74 KB (5,066 words) - 12:38, 7 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Barra Isles
    the islands are extremely small; only the largest, Vatersay – which is now linked by the Vatersay Causeway to Barra – remains inhabited. Berneray (also...
    3 KB (323 words) - 19:43, 29 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Flodday near Vatersay
    Flodday (nearest island), viewed from Vatersay....
    2 KB (181 words) - 08:28, 24 June 2022
  • Thumbnail for Castlebay
    Atlantic Ocean dominated by Kisimul Castle, as well as nearby islands such as Vatersay. Castlebay is also within the parish of Barra. The village is located on...
    11 KB (1,187 words) - 22:57, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tombolo
    Corpus Christi, Texas, United States Uummannaq in North Star Bay, Greenland Vatersay, Scotland – the island comprises two sections connected by a broad tombolo...
    13 KB (1,296 words) - 16:01, 3 March 2024
  • pig Shetland Rockall Hiort or Hirta Boreray (disambiguation) Stac Lee Vatersay Eriskay Grimsay Berneray Barra Mingulay South Uist Benbecula North Uist...
    14 KB (1,025 words) - 18:30, 8 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Stornoway
    most parts of the Southern Isles, i.e. Benbecula, South Uist, Barra, and Vatersay, and on mainland Scotland. The town was founded by Vikings in the early...
    52 KB (4,860 words) - 00:54, 4 May 2024
  • misleading as it is only the second largest of the Barra Isles behind Vatersay, which is lower lying and appears smaller from the sea. Miughalaigh and...
    31 KB (4,226 words) - 20:36, 31 March 2024
  • 683°W / 57.583; -13.683 Westernmost settlement – Caolas, Bhatarsaigh (Vatersay), Outer Hebrides at 56°56′N 7°32′W / 56.933°N 7.533°W / 56.933; -7.533...
    15 KB (2,371 words) - 12:03, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Inverness-shire
    Beag Flodaigh Mòr Flodday, Loch Maddy Flodday (Sound of Barra) Flodday (Vatersay) Fodragaigh Fuday Fuidheigh Fuidheigh Beag Fuam Fuam an Tolla Fuam na h-Ola...
    45 KB (4,092 words) - 16:04, 19 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of bays of the Outer Hebrides
    (secondary coordinates) The small island of Flodday, located to the south of Vatersay has no bays. The small island of Lingeigh has no bays. Map this section's...
    48 KB (1,649 words) - 22:35, 24 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Squatting in Scotland
    Scotland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, for example in Vatersay and Knoydart. More recently there have been land occupations as both road...
    16 KB (1,312 words) - 02:08, 27 November 2023
  • 86 Island part of Japan. Oshima (Hokkaido) 9.73 Island part of Japan. Vatersay 9.6 Island part of Scotland. Shimoji-shima 9.54 Island part of the Miyako...
    87 KB (460 words) - 03:21, 8 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hebrides
    Hearadh South Uist English + Pre-Celtic? Uibhist a Deas See North Uist Vatersay Vatrsey? Norse water island Wattersay Bhatarsaigh fathers' island, priest...
    78 KB (7,832 words) - 22:42, 9 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Emily Gordon Cathcart
    in the highlands and is thought to have visited only once; she took ten Vatersay crofters to court in 1908 after they refused to vacate their cottages....
    6 KB (539 words) - 22:38, 10 May 2024
  • known for its large seabird colony. Sandray is half a mile due south of Vatersay, and east of Flodaigh, north east of Lingeigh and Pabaigh. Maol Domhnaigh/Muldoanich...
    2 KB (173 words) - 19:10, 11 April 2022
  • to support social and economic development in the community of Barra & Vatersay via a charitable trust. Shares are available to purchase, and in December...
    3 KB (280 words) - 15:28, 28 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of Outer Hebrides
    Fraoch-eilean and the southern Grimsay to Benbecula, and Vatersay is connected to Barra by the Vatersay Causeway. This means that all of the inhabited islands...
    44 KB (3,743 words) - 06:30, 9 February 2024
  • while Barra was 81.5% Catholic. The small islands of Eriskay (94%) and Vatersay (90%) were also heavily Catholic, while Benbecula, further north, was more...
    15 KB (1,762 words) - 23:31, 10 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Voiced dental fricative
    South Uist; otherwise realized as [ɾʲ] or as [r̝] in southern Barra and Vatersay. Sioux Lakota zapta [ˈðaptã] 'five' Sometimes with [z] Spanish Most dialects...
    23 KB (1,279 words) - 03:08, 1 May 2024
  • 683°W / 57.583; -13.683 Westernmost settlement – Caolas, Bhatarsaigh (Vatersay), Outer Hebrides at 56°56′N 7°32′W / 56.933°N 7.533°W / 56.933; -7.533...
    6 KB (816 words) - 10:49, 20 December 2023
  • [citation needed] In 1906, landless men from the island of Barra crossed to Vatersay. The latter was a fertile island run as a single farm but its owner Lady...
    3 KB (301 words) - 15:04, 25 June 2022
  • Thumbnail for Heaval
    north. Another hill, Theisabhal Mor (190 m) is on Vatersay, which is linked to Barra by the Vatersay Causeway. Five of the uninhabited islands to the south...
    2 KB (213 words) - 20:28, 15 July 2023