Orfasay
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Orfasay is one of the Shetland Islands
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in Yell Sound
, connected to Yell at low tide. This is reflected in the island's name.
It is near the mouth of Hamna Voe and Cuppister in Yell.
Shetland Islands
Shetland is a subarctic archipelago of Scotland that lies north and east of mainland Great Britain. The islands lie some to the northeast of Orkney and southeast of the Faroe Islands and form part of the division between the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the North Sea to the east. The total...
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Geography
Orfasay is a tidal islandTidal island
A tidal island is a piece of land that is connected to the mainland by a natural or man-made causeway that is exposed at low tide and submerged at high tide. Because of the mystique surrounding tidal islands many of them have been sites of religious worship, such as Mont Saint Michel with its...
in Yell Sound
Yell Sound
Yell Sound is the strait running between Yell and Mainland, Shetland. It is the boundary between the Mainland and the North Isles and it contains many small islands. Sullom Voe, on the shores of which is a substantial oil terminal, is an arm of Yell Sound....
, connected to Yell at low tide. This is reflected in the island's name.
It is near the mouth of Hamna Voe and Cuppister in Yell.