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can be seen pulled well up the shingle beach by the landing stage. It is no longer seaworthy, having a hole in it caused by the feral cows using it as a rubbing post. The landing stage and boat can be seen briefly in passing through a gap in the rocks near the north end of the island on the east
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The Swona Minor light was built in 1906 on the south west tip of Swona. It was originally a cast iron tower but was replaced by a reinforced concrete square tower sometime in the 1980s. The earlier Stroma
Lighthouse was built in 1896 and stands at the northern end of the Island of Stroma.
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1919:Orkney representative football team
1909:Orkney Amateur Football Association
1123:Jamie, Kathleen (20 January 2021).
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1888:Orcadian Women's Suffrage Society
1151:McDonald, Sally (16 March 2021).
1043:"Lighthouses of Scotland: Orkney"
1356:A Photographic Portrait of Swona
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852:List of lighthouses in Scotland
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1332:. BirdLife International. 2024
1310:(May 2021). "The Reclaimers".
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1222:. 14 June 2003. Archived from
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963:Haswell-Smith, Hamish (2004).
942:(Map). Ordnance Survey. 2008.
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969:. Edinburgh: Canongate.
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769:briefly visited Swona;
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363:cast iron tower (first)
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1537:List of Orkney islands
1376:Swona Heritage Website
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178:92 ha (230 acres)
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1177:"MV Alfred Incident"
1104:on 27 September 2007
1088:"The Orkney Vikings"
1014:Orkneyjar ok Katanes
966:The Scottish Islands
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903:(15 August 2013).
842:Engineering portal
719:St Margaret's Hope
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1076:Overview of Swona
976:978-1-84195-454-7
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2458:Chicken Rock
2440:Minor lights
2420:Out Skerries
2357:Minor lights
2312:Cantick Head
2284:Minor lights
2274:Tiumpan Head
2170:Minor lights
2135:Scurdie Ness
2125:St Abbs Head
2115:Rattray Head
2035:Crammag Head
2020:Corran Point
1990:Ardnamurchan
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400:Power source
358:Construction
345:1906 (first)
239:Demographics
205:Council area
165:Island group
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2450:Isle of Man
2435:Ve Skerries
2410:Little Holm
2347:Start Point
2234:Neist Point
2204:Eilean Glas
2199:Dubh Artach
2160:Tarbat Ness
2155:Sule Skerry
2080:Isle of May
2065:Girdle Ness
2050:Dunnet Head
2005:Buchan Ness
1985:Ailsa Craig
1961:Lighthouses
1914:Orkney F.C.
1643:South Walls
1449:Glimps Holm
1416:South East
1267:17 February
1230:20 February
1136:17 February
1108:16 December
888:2011 census
435:Deactivated
395:white tower
342:Constructed
329: /
304:Coordinates
186:153
147: /
122:Coordinates
2498:Categories
2395:Firths Voe
2269:Skerryvore
2189:Barra Head
2140:Stoer Head
2100:North Rona
2010:Cape Wrath
1847:Witchcraft
1842:Scapa Flow
1832:Prehistory
1793:St Andrews
1603:Inner Holm
1429:Black Holm
880: 300
665:shipwrecks
550:whirlpools
545:tidal race
532:, west of
530:Scapa Flow
350:Foundation
314:58°44′15″N
262:References
245:Population
132:58°44′34″N
2405:Hoo Stack
2337:Noup Head
2264:Scarinish
2165:Turnberry
2105:Noss Head
2075:Inchkeith
2060:Fife Ness
2025:Corsewall
2000:Bell Rock
1995:Bass Rock
1812:Stromness
1737:Stromness
1684:Lamb Holm
1674:Eynhallow
1633:Shapinsay
1464:Lamb Holm
1444:Corn Holm
1336:30 August
1308:Flyn, Cal
921:14 August
863:Footnotes
735:Shorthorn
715:Gills Bay
706:' vessel
645:, in the
631:Old Norse
600:Gills Bay
522:Caithness
427:First lit
368:Automated
317:3°04′14″W
183:Area rank
135:3°03′29″W
35:Old Norse
2380:Eshaness
2367:Shetland
2352:Tor Ness
2317:Copinsay
2302:Auskerry
2279:Ushenish
2181:Hebrides
2015:Chanonry
1973:Scotland
1856:Politics
1808:Stenness
1803:Sandwick
1758:Deerness
1731:Kirkwall
1648:Stronsay
1588:Graemsay
1558:Auskerry
1552:Mainland
1439:Copinsay
1194:BBC News
1162:5 August
812:See also
806:seabirds
729:Wildlife
708:MV
685:Cal Flyn
526:Scottish
494:Scotland
471:Fl W 8s.
415:Operator
392:Markings
222:Scotland
114:ND387844
68:Location
2375:Bressay
2224:Lismore
2219:Hyskeir
2214:Haskeir
2120:Rubh Re
1963:of the
1837:History
1827:Geology
1788:Rendall
1653:Westray
1583:Gairsay
1573:Egilsay
1029:Canmore
755:seaweed
639:Swefney
625:History
602:, near
574:⁄
564:⁄
524:on the
217:Country
2294:Orkney
2259:Ruvaal
2239:Ornsay
2229:Monach
2150:Stroma
2110:Pladda
2040:Davaar
1820:Topics
1798:St Ola
1783:Orphir
1773:Harray
1753:Birsay
1689:Switha
1628:Sanday
1623:Rousay
1578:Flotta
1563:Burray
1528:Orkney
1434:Burray
1292:28 May
1200:11 May
1056:28 May
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710:Alfred
695:
643:Svínoy
635:Svíney
588:Stroma
376:Height
169:Orkney
2400:Foula
2130:Sanda
2055:Fidra
1897:Sport
1768:Firth
1723:Towns
1694:Swona
1486:Swona
1459:Hunda
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777:Birds
743:feral
606:, to
486:Swona
451:Range
384:Shape
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92:Swona
29:Swona
2179:The
1778:Holm
1763:Evie
1658:Wyre
1568:Eday
1338:2024
1294:2021
1269:2024
1232:2011
1202:2023
1164:2021
1138:2024
1110:2007
1058:2016
998:ISBN
971:ISBN
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717:and
693:ISBN
657:Hood
615:SSSI
543:, a
520:and
371:1983
175:Area
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