This is a list of islands called Oronsay (Scottish Gaelic: Orasaighⓘ), which provides an index for islands in Scotland with this and similar names. It is one of the more common names for Scottish islands. The names come from Örfirisey which translates from Old Norse as "tidal" or "ebb island".[1] The many islands include:
^Watson (2004) p. 505.
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Sanday Torsa Oronsay means "ebb island" and there are several tidal islandsof this name. The three main islandsof the Monach Islands (Heisgeir), Ceann...
This listof Inner Hebrides summarises a chain ofislands and skerries located off the west coast of mainland Scotland. There are 36 inhabited islands in...
on the islandsof Islay and Oronsay and the surrounding seabed. The sequence has been correlated with the Grampian Group, the oldest part of the Dalradian...
Contact, 1997 Hai Peng – Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, 2007 SS Happy Wanderer (based on the SS Oronsay) – cruise liner, Carry On Cruising...
peninsula, as does Loch Aline in the south. At the estuary of Loch Teacuis lie the large islandsofOronsay, Risga and Càrna. There are numerous lochs in northern...
Bee Keeping (Colonsay and Oronsay) Order, making it an offence to keep any other honeybee (Apis mellifera) on either island other than the subspecies...
the south, the tidal islandofOronsay lies 1.7 miles southeast and Harlosh Island is a mile to the west. There is a large colony of Common Gulls which...
islandsof Colonsay, Oronsay, Jura and Islay. The waters surrounding the islands are extensively used for leisure sailing areas. A good knowledge of the...
Adomnán refers to an islandcalled Hinbina - presumably "Little Hinba". Only Colonsay and Oronsay provide a large and little island". Dyrøy from the Norse...
(LST) Troop ships SS Oronsay RMS Duchess of Atholl RMS Franconia Stores and MT ships SS Empire Kingsley M/S Thalatta SS Mahout SS City of Hong Kong SS Mairnbank...
The Kingdom of the Isles was a Norse-Gaelic kingdom comprising the Isle of Man, the Hebrides and the islandsof the Clyde from the 9th to the 13th centuries...
Oronsay, Inner Hebrides – A small tidal island south of Colonsay in the Scottish Inner Hebrides Oronsay, Loch Bracadale – An uninhabited tidal island...
Adomnán's late 7th-century Vita Columbae. The islandsof Eileach an Naoimh, Jura, Colonsay and Oronsay are the most likely candidates, although Seil and...
and HMCS Ottawa to assist Oronsay, which had been damaged. At 21:28 hours 14 October 1940 U-137 attacked Cheshire northwest of Ireland at position 55°13′N...
the nearby Oronsay, a 20,000-ton Orient Liner, was hit on the bridge by a German bomb. Lancastria was free to depart and the captain of the British destroyer...
record of the human flea, Pulex irritans in Europe. The islandsof Colonsay and Oronsay are home to about 50 colonies of the only native species of honeybee...
various forms, many of which are considered associated names of the clan. The clan has a long history with the islandsof Colonsay and Oronsay in the Scottish...
the far north of Scotland during this period. Sites from the British Mesolithic include the Mendips, Star Carr in Yorkshire and Oronsay in the Inner Hebrides...
Islay Jura Kerrera Lismore Mull Oronsay (Tidal island) Sanda Island Scarba Sheep Island Shuna Island, near Appin Slate Islands including Easdale, Fladda, Seil...
from the southern Hebrides to the Tynwald parliament on Man. Colonsay and Oronsay have produced important pagan Norse burial grounds. An 11th-century cross...
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