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Uninhabited tidal island off the coast of Shapinsay in the Orkney Islands, Scotland

Helliar Holm
Location
The West Coast of Helliar Holm low tide on a rainy day and the wave-cut platform is exposed.
Helliar HolmHelliar Holm shown within Orkney
OS grid reference	HY484153
Coordinates	59°01′23″N 2°54′04″W / 59.023°N 2.901°W / 59.023; -2.901
Physical geography
Island group	Orkney
Administration
Council area	Orkney Islands
Country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Demographics
Population	0


Helliar Holm Lighthouse
Saeva Ness lighthouse at the southern end of Helliar Holm
Constructed	1893
Construction	stone tower
Automated	1967
Height	42 ft (13 m)
Shape	cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern
Markings	white tower, black lantern, ochre trim
Power source	solar power
Operator	Northern Lighthouse Board
Heritage	category B listed building

Focal height	18 m (59 ft)
Range	white: 14 nautical miles (26 km; 16 mi) red: 10 nautical miles (19 km; 12 mi)
Characteristic	Fl WRG 10s

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. 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.

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

Gallery

Saeva Ness lighthouse on the tip of Helliar Holm
Cliffs and chambered cairn on Helliar Holm.

References

Helliar Holm Light Lighthouses Explorer. Retrieved 27 May 2016
Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Scotland: Orkney". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
"Lighthouse Explorer database". Archived from the original on 13 February 2006. Retrieved 14 August 2007.
Haswell-Smith, Hamish. (2004) The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh. Canongate.
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

External links

Northern Lighthouse Board

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

v t e North East Orkney Islands
Auskerry Calf of Eday Eday Helliar Holm Holm of Huip Linga Holm Muckle Green Holm North Ronaldsay Papa Stronsay Sanday Shapinsay Stronsay Thieves Holm

v t e Orkney
List of Orkney islands
Inhabited islands	Mainland Auskerry Burray Eday Egilsay Flotta Gairsay Graemsay Holm of Grimbister Hoy Inner Holm North Ronaldsay Papa Stronsay Papa Westray Rousay Sanday Shapinsay South Ronaldsay South Walls Stronsay Westray Wyre
Other islands	Eynhallow Helliar Holm Lamb Holm Switha Swona North West islands North East islands South West islands South East islands
Towns	Kirkwall Stromness
Mainland parishes	Birsay Deerness Evie Firth Harray Holm Orphir Rendall St Andrews St Ola Sandwick Stenness Stromness
Topics	Geology Prehistory History Scapa Flow Witchcraft
Politics	Earls of Orkney Orkney Islands Council Flag of Orkney Orkney (Scottish Parliament constituency) Orkney and Shetland (UK Parliament constituency) Orcadian Women's Suffrage Society
Sport	Kirkwall Ba game Orkney Amateur Football Association Orkney F.C. Orkney representative football team

v t e Lighthouses of the Northern Lighthouse Board
Scotland (except principal island groups)	Ailsa Craig Ardnamurchan Bass Rock Bell Rock Buchan Ness Cape Wrath Chanonry Corran Point Corsewall Covesea Skerries Crammag Head Davaar Duncansby Head Dunnet Head Fidra Fife Ness Girdle Ness Holy Island (Outer) Inchkeith Isle of May Kinnaird Head Mull of Galloway Mull of Kintyre North Rona Noss Head Pladda Rattray Head Rubh Re St Abbs Head Sanda Scurdie Ness Stoer Head Strathy Point Stroma Sule Skerry Tarbat Ness Turnberry Minor lights
The Hebrides	Barra Head Butt of Lewis Dubh Artach Eilean Glas Flannan Islands Haskeir Hyskeir Lismore Monach Neist Point Ornsay Rinns of Islay Rubha nan Gall Rona Lighthouse Ruvaal Scarinish Skerryvore Tiumpan Head Ushenish Minor lights
Orkney	Auskerry Brough of Birsay Cantick Head Copinsay Hoy Sound (High) Hoy Sound (Low) North Ronaldsay Noup Head Pentland Skerries Start Point Tor Ness Minor lights
Shetland	Bressay Eshaness Fair Isle North Fair Isle South Firths Voe Foula Hoo Stack Little Holm Muckle Flugga Out Skerries Point of Fethaland Sumburgh Head Ve Skerries Minor lights
Isle of Man	Chicken Rock Douglas Head Langness (minor light) Maughold Head Point of Ayre Thousla Rock (minor light)

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