Papa ( sco, Papa;
Old Norse
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: ''Papey'', meaning "the island of the priests") is an uninhabited island in the
Scalloway Islands
The Scalloway Islands are in Shetland opposite Scalloway on south west of the Mainland, Shetland, Mainland. They form a mini-archipelago and include:
* Burra, Shetland, Burra (two islands linked by bridge to each other and Trondra)
** East Burra ...
,
Shetland,
Scotland
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.
Papa lies north west of
Burra and east of
Oxna
Oxna is one of the Scalloway Islands, lying north west of Burra in Shetland, Scotland. Oxna has an area of .
The island has been uninhabited since the First World War
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as W ...
in the
Shetland Islands. The population was 20 in 1871, 14 in 1881 and 23 in 1891. The last residents left between 1891 and 1930. Most habitation was on the eastern end of the island, the peninsula ''East Head of Papa''. A beached loch and a low area divide the island nearly into three separate parts.
Footnotes
Uninhabited islands of Shetland
Scalloway Islands
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